unsee

[uhn-see]

verb (used with object)

unsaw, unseen, unseeing. 

1. to remove (something seen) from one's memory or conscious awareness; to forget or ignore images or the like.

   It's a good tutorial for anyone who's ever published something and then found a mistake they can't unsee in it.

   He really wished he could unsee the violent images he had accidentally glimpsed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unsee¹

First recorded in 1350–1400

Example Sentences

We can’t unsee the genocide or pretend that it’s somehow moved us to a point where we can start imagining a political future without taking stock of this moment.

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But the largest error that lies in the hope that people will eventually come around to feeling compassion for the suffering of the “other”—the refugee and the migrant and the trans kid and the woman with an ectopic pregnancy—is that it ignores that we are being trained every day in the opposite direction: We are being conditioned to unsee even those people for whom we felt some kinship a mere eight years ago.

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It’s sort of like there’s an image that you can’t unsee.

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Now that we’ve unearthed these lines, we can’t unsee them.

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Ms Lucas said there were "scars we cannot unsee" and she was struggling with trusting others and herself.

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Related Words

• dismiss from mind www.thesaurus.com
• forget