Usage of "unsay" | TermGallery

Portuguese

Catalan

Take back what one has said.

Usage of unsay in English

I would, for your sake, father, unsay the words if I could. 
 A Daughter of Fife 

But the words were said, and Benny didn't know how to unsay them. 
 Rot & ruin 

I must unsay now all that I said in favor of the isthmus. 
 Overland: A Novel 

So please unsay what you told Mrs. Fremont in the parlor last evening. 
 Miss Dexie / A Romance of the Provinces 

The words escaped, and he could neither unsay his promise nor her request. 
 Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 

So unsay thy words, Nam-Bok, that we may yet honor thee. 
 Children of the Frost 

John Hatton is not saying today what he will unsay tomorrow. 
 The Measure of a Man 

You have only to unsay-tellme you have a right to demand it.' 
 Evan Harrington — Volume 3 

I couldn't unsay a word I said to you- Idon'twish anything undone.' 
 In the Year of Jubilee 

I was also taken aback by my own words, but I couldn't unsay them. 
 Evil and the Mask 

Mrs. Trevlyn, I shall request you to unsay the insinuation conveyed in your words. 
 The Fatal Glove 

They could not unsay the fateful words which called into being the Imperial Duma. 
 Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy 

But all the armies and statecraft of Europe cannot unsay what you have said. 
 The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 / Negligible Tal... 

But now, let me unsay what I said in anger. 
 Villette 

If you do, I will unsay it, let it cost me what it may. 
 The Eustace Diamonds 

We say the creeds; how far may we unsay them? 
 The Soul of a Bishop 

unsay

Adjective

Adverb

Verb

Indicative · Present

Frequent collocations

Translations for unsay

Portuguese

Catalan

Unsay through the time

Unsay across language varieties

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Meanings of unsay in English