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UNSAY
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Irregular inflected form: unsaid
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they unsay ... he / she / it unsays
Past simple: unsaid
Past participle: unsaid
-ing form: unsaying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take back what one has said
Example:
He swallowed his words
Synonyms:
swallow; take back; unsay; withdraw
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "unsay" is one way to...):
disown; renounce; repudiate (cast off)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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