unsay

大学

vt. 取消, 撤回

词形变化

unsaid unsaying unsays 三单 unsays unsaying 现在分词 unsaid 过去式 unsaid 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

撤回，收回；取消

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To withdraw, retract (something said).

  2. 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.

    There are some things I'd like to unsay... to my boss... right before he decided to fire me.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 3

swallow withdraw take back

上位词 3

renounce disown repudiate

相关短语

Datu Unsay

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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