unsay
verb (used with object)
to withdraw (something said), as if it had never been said; retract.
have unsaid
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present perfectof unsay.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Gladly she would have unsaid her resentful words; she had been guilty of a childish outburst of temper, and perhaps had prepared worse sufferings for the future.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
I did say so; but as I have unsaid it since, you as a gentleman will not remember my words.
From The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
Indeed, I was partly led on to use such expressions by the young fellow condemning so bitterly their conduct, and which I afterwards would have given something to have unsaid.
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees
The girl would have given much to have unsaid it, to have given any sort of explanation.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger
He might say something that the chief would rather have unsaid; for always there was the possibility of listeners in on the telephone.
From The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol by Lewis E. Theiss
