Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give way; relax; slacken.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To yield; to relax; to give way.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, intransitive To
yield ;relax ;slacken ;give way . - verb transitive To
take back .
Etymologies
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From un- + give.
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Examples
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(Glanvill) {152}; ‘to know’, but not ‘to unknow’ (Wiclif); ‘to give’, but not ‘to ungive’.
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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