unsay
verb (used with object)
to withdraw (something said), as if it had never been said; retract.
unsays
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present tense formof unsay (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Lethem’s revisionist project ultimately unsays as much as it says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
"Marry him without a word against it to dread from me—so long as he unsays the words and undoes the deeds which have thrown a doubt on the marriage of Arnold and Blanche."
From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
She unsays her words, she gives herself the lie, she says to the children, “Be old!”
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
Mr. Hughes forgets—or does he forget?—that in the sequel to this poem, entitled Sixty Years After, Tennyson unsays all the high-pitched dispraise of Amy and her squire.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
Mr. Sumner's speech in the Senate unsays no part of his Faneuil Hall pledge.
From American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Alexander Johnston
