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Definition of unsay in English: unsayverbunsaying, unsaid, unsaysʌnˈseɪˌənˈseɪ [with object]Withdraw or retract (a statement) once something has been said, it cannot be unsaid Example sentencesExamples - Ballmer now, however, seems to be going some way to unsaying this.
- After all, I didn't have a time machine, and I couldn't unsay what I had said, though what I had said was one of those things that clearly required erasing.
- The things he'd said couldn't be unsaid, not with a million apologies… She'd been basing the last few months of her life on a lie.
- Because once everything's been said about a subject what is left for new writers but the pleasure of unsaying it all?
- Second, we must revoke it - that is, unsay or cancel it.
- Does he not realise how words said are hard to be unsaid.
- Oprah proved herself a worthy word queen by recognizing that what has been said cannot be unsaid.
- The arguments they have put forward are known to the HLF and can't be unsaid.
- I realised that I could get away with unsaying those words.
- Her eyes sidled up to Herr Bormann, who was perusing his fork, with such intent that she wished she could unsay her words.
- I hope that none of us, even after the end of the metaphysics of the subject, would want to entirely unsay that old Mozartian thought, or fail to appreciate the art that made it possible.
- Amy wished that she could unsay what she had just said, but couldn't help feel what she had said was right.
- I've always thought this and I've never unsaid a word of it.
- I kept thinking, oh my God, I am way out of my depth, but, I just couldn't unsay it.
- Gill may have recanted, but what's said cannot be unsaid, and Ferguson must now deal with the notion that his future is more publicly on the agenda.
- ‘In a book, once you say things, you can't unsay them,’ Witeck warns.
- Despite much mature retrospection, I can't unsay those mean comments to Mom, undo what 18 years of smoking did to my lungs, nor unwrite the cringe-inducing history of my high school social life.
- A lot was said during that divisive leadership campaign which cannot be unsaid.
- The three words silently reverberated in the air, wanting to be taken back but Val knew it couldn't be unsaid.
- However, no sooner had the parliament spoken than there were attempts to unsay its words.
Synonyms take back, withdraw, recant, disown, disavow, disclaim, abjure, repudiate, renounce, reverse, revoke, rescind, annul, cancel, go back on, backtrack on, do a u-turn on, row back on
Definition of unsay in US English: unsayverbˌənˈsāˌənˈseɪ [with object]Withdraw or retract (a statement) once something has been said, it cannot be unsaid Example sentencesExamples - I hope that none of us, even after the end of the metaphysics of the subject, would want to entirely unsay that old Mozartian thought, or fail to appreciate the art that made it possible.
- Gill may have recanted, but what's said cannot be unsaid, and Ferguson must now deal with the notion that his future is more publicly on the agenda.
- Second, we must revoke it - that is, unsay or cancel it.
- After all, I didn't have a time machine, and I couldn't unsay what I had said, though what I had said was one of those things that clearly required erasing.
- The three words silently reverberated in the air, wanting to be taken back but Val knew it couldn't be unsaid.
- The things he'd said couldn't be unsaid, not with a million apologies… She'd been basing the last few months of her life on a lie.
- I kept thinking, oh my God, I am way out of my depth, but, I just couldn't unsay it.
- However, no sooner had the parliament spoken than there were attempts to unsay its words.
- I've always thought this and I've never unsaid a word of it.
- Does he not realise how words said are hard to be unsaid.
- Her eyes sidled up to Herr Bormann, who was perusing his fork, with such intent that she wished she could unsay her words.
- Despite much mature retrospection, I can't unsay those mean comments to Mom, undo what 18 years of smoking did to my lungs, nor unwrite the cringe-inducing history of my high school social life.
- ‘In a book, once you say things, you can't unsay them,’ Witeck warns.
- A lot was said during that divisive leadership campaign which cannot be unsaid.
- Amy wished that she could unsay what she had just said, but couldn't help feel what she had said was right.
- Oprah proved herself a worthy word queen by recognizing that what has been said cannot be unsaid.
- Ballmer now, however, seems to be going some way to unsaying this.
- The arguments they have put forward are known to the HLF and can't be unsaid.
- I realised that I could get away with unsaying those words.
- Because once everything's been said about a subject what is left for new writers but the pleasure of unsaying it all?
Synonyms take back, withdraw, recant, disown, disavow, disclaim, abjure, repudiate, renounce, reverse, revoke, rescind, annul, cancel, go back on, backtrack on, do a u-turn on, row back on
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