unget

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ get; compare unbeget, Middle English ungeten (unbegotten; not won; not captured).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʌnˈɡɛt/

Verb

unget (third-person singular simple present ungets, present participle ungetting, simple past ungot, past participle ungot or ungotten)

  1. The opposite action of get (in various senses)
    1. (transitive) To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.
    2. (transitive) To unacquire; relinquish; release; get rid of; lose; lose hold of; forget
      • 1893, The Parliamentary Debates, page 1491:
        He felt himself in the position that having got the conviction he did not see how he was to unget it.
      • 2012, Scott Rothkopf, Wade Guyton OS, page 27:
        One senses from the paintings that followed his first explosion of production that he hoped to unget the hang of something he'd just gotten the hang of, to whittle down even further his self-professed paucity of conceptual and manual means.

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Latin

Verb

unget

  1. third-person singular future active indicative of ungō