uneat

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ eat.

Verb

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uneat (third-person singular simple present uneats, present participle uneating, simple past unate, past participle uneaten)

  1. (transitive) To undo or reverse the eating of.
    • 1998, Martin Greenberg, August is a Good Time for Killing, page 151:
      And now I wished I could uneat them somehow. The ghost of those peas was rising in my throat and fuddling my brain, making it difficult to think or speak with any sense at all.
    • 2008, John L. Greenway, The Golden Horns: Mythic Imagination and the Nordic Past, page 139:
      In this chapter we will consider the development of an understanding of human history which was satisfying on both a mythic and an intellectual level; mythic, in that there evolved a symbolically adequate formulation of the accessibility of the golden age; intellectual, in that man was not asked to uneat the apple.
    • 2013, S.G. Browne, Lucky Bastard, page 209:
      Once we've eaten from it, we can't uneat it.

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