Definitions
take back what one has said
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad […]”
“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.”
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