"unsay" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English unseyen, unseien, from Old English onseċġan (“to deny, renounce”), from Proto-West Germanic *andasaggjan (“to unsay, renounce, deny”), equivalent to un- + say. Cognate with Dutch ontzeggen (“to deny”), German entsagen (“to renounce, abjure”).",
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        "To withdraw, retract (something said)."
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          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "to withdraw something said",
          "word": "poništiti izrečeno"
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          "sense": "to withdraw something said",
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        {
          "text": "I wish I could unsay that."
        },
        {
          "text": "There are some things I'd like to unsay... to my boss... right before he decided to fire me."
        }
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        "To cause something not to have been said; to make it so that one never said something (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive)."
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        "2": "entsagen",
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        "singular",
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      "form": "unsaying",
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      "form": "unsaid",
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "I wish I could unsay that."
        },
        {
          "text": "There are some things I'd like to unsay... to my boss... right before he decided to fire me."
        }
      ],
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        "To cause something not to have been said; to make it so that one never said something (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive)."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "unspeak"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to withdraw something said",
      "word": "poništiti izrečeno"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to withdraw something said",
      "word": "poreći"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to withdraw something said",
      "word": "povući izrečeno"
    }
  ],
  "word": "unsay"
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