unsay
- To withdraw, retract (something said).
- 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).
Etymology
In summary
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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