unsay

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To withdraw, retract (something said).
    — And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad […]
  2. To cause something not to have been said; to make it so that one never said something (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive).
    — I wish I could unsay that.

词形变化

unsays present,singular,third-person unsaying participle,present unsaid participle,past unsaid past

词汇关系

近义词
take back unspeak

词源

From Middle English unseyen, unseien, from Old English onseċġan (“to deny, renounce”), from Proto-West Germanic *andasaggjan (“to unsay, renounce, deny”), equivalent to un- + say. Cognate with Dutch ontzeggen (“to deny”), German entsagen (“to renounce, abjure”).
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