unlive
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of unlive
Example Sentences
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They came to her so often now, these intelligent, untrained women, all eagerness to help, to forget and unlive, if they could, their wasted lives.
From Dangerous Days by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Thus they unlive their former lives, and commence men by forgetting that they ever have been boys.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert
The latter part of his life is so led as if he desired to unlive his youth, and his last testament is full of restitutions and legacies of piety.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
No," said she, calmly, "that you cannot, for you cannot make me unlive the past!
From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James
It means that I divorce myself from everything of Now; that I unlive my past life; that I leave my companionship with dumb things––horses and cattle and birds––and I love them, for they are natural.
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.
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