unengage
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]unengage (third-person singular simple present unengages, present participle unengaging, simple past and past participle unengaged)
- (transitive) To rid of a marriage engagement.
- 2013, Cathy Williams, The Notorious Gabriel Diaz, page 131:
- Well, now she had to unengage herself, and she wasn't looking forward to the process.
- 2018, Piper Rayne, Engaged to the EMT:
- How the heck do you unengage the girl you're dating so that one day you can ask her again...probably, maybe? None of these thoughts occurred to me when I fell down on bended knee the first time.