unspeak

[ uhn-speek ]
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verb (used with object),un·spoke, un·spo·ken, un·speak·ing.Obsolete.
  1. to recant; unsay.

Origin of unspeak

1
First recorded in 1595–1605; un-2 + speak

Words Nearby unspeak

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How to use unspeak in a sentence

  • Spite of all that, I might refuse to unspeak my words, which I never did afore, if it had not been that I wronged the man.

    Mary Anerley | R. D. Blackmore

British Dictionary definitions for unspeak

unspeak

/ (ʌnˈspiːk) /


verb-speaks, -speaking, -spoke or -spoken
  1. an obsolete word for unsay

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