ungive

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ give.

Verb

ungive (third-person singular simple present ungives, present participle ungiving, simple past ungave, past participle ungiven)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To yield; relax; slacken; give way; loosen.
  2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To melt; thaw.
  3. (transitive) To take back something that had been given.
    • 1994, William Diehl, Primal Fear:
      "Impossible," Vail said. "She's going to work at one of the prestige films at the end of this month. She's already given notice!" "Well apparently she ungave it. [...]"

Translations

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “ungive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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