Word Meanings - UNSAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said. You can say and unsay things at pleasure. Goldsmith.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNSAY)

• Recant
• Retract
• unsay
• recal
• revoke
• abjure
• renounce
• Withdraw
• disavow
• recant

Related words: (words related to UNSAY)

• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• RETRACT
  1. To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation. 2. To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration. She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, Consents, retracts, advances, and then files.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• RENOUNCE
  To disclaim having a card of by playing a card of another suit. To renounce probate , to decline to act as the executor of a will. Mozley & W. Syn. -- To cast off; disavow; disown; disclaim; deny; abjure; recant; abandon; forsake; quit; forego;
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• ABJUREMENT
  Renunciation.
• DISAVOW
  1. To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, an the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime. A solemn promise made and disavowed. Dryden.
• RENOUNCEMENT
  The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation. Shak.
• ABJURER
  One who abjures.
• RECALCITRANT
  Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory. (more info) kick back; pref. re- re- + calcitrare to kick, fr. calx heel. Cf.
• RENOUNCER
  One who renounces.
• WITHDRAWING-ROOM
  A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room. A door in the middle leading to a parlor and withdrawing-room. Sir W. Scott.
• RETRACTILE
  CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.
• REVOKE
  1. To call or bring back; to recall. The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality. Spenser. 2. Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special
• DISAVOWAL
  The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial. An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. Richardson.
• PRECALCULATE
  To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange. Masson.
• IRRETRACTILE
  1. Not retractile. 2. Not tractile or ductile. Sir W. Hamilton.