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Webster 1913 Edition
Unsay
Un-say
,Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+ say
.] To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said.
You can say and
unsay
things at pleasure. Goldsmith.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unsay
UNSA'Y
,Verb.
T.
Say and unsay, feign, flatter or abjure.
Definition 2024
unsay
unsay
English
Verb
unsay (third-person singular simple present unsays, present participle unsaying, simple past and past participle unsaid)
- To withdraw, retract (something said).
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad [...].
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- To not have said (since this is physically impossible usually in the subjunctive, as I wish I could unsay).
- There are somethings I'd like to unsay... to my boss... right before he decided to fire me.