unspend

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ spend.

Verb

unspend (third-person singular simple present unspends, present participle unspending, simple past and past participle unspent)

1. (transitive, rare) To recover (money that has been spent); to undo the spending of.

   Now that I have to get a mortgage, I wish I could unspend all that money I wasted on my car.