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. (transitive) To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.
   • 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 32:

     I'll diſovvn you, I'll diſinherit you, I'll unget you!

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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• tengu

Latin

Verb

unget

1. third-person singular future active indicative of ungō