"untell" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From un- + tell.",
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      "form": "untells",
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      "form": "untelling",
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    {
      "form": "untold",
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      "form": "untold",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1993, Jack Selzer, Understanding scientific prose, page 54:",
          "text": "Narrative untells itself by multiplying itself into discontinuous \"turns\" that cannot be resolved into a continuous story.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Diane DuBose Brunner, Between the masks: resisting the politics of essentialism, page 29:",
          "text": "Trinh (1991) writes that untelling the stories of privilege and marginality is a form of displacement that takes a long time.",
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          "ref": "2004, Patrick Bizzaro, More lights than one: on the fiction of Fred Chappell, page 103:",
          "text": "And once his story was told, it was told; there was no way to untell it, no way to make himself look good.",
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        "To withdraw or retract (something told); to never have told."
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        "(transitive) To withdraw or retract (something told); to never have told."
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          "ref": "1607, Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness:",
          "text": "That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, / To untell the days, and to redeem these hours.",
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        "To undo or reverse the counting of; to count back."
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        "(transitive, archaic) To undo or reverse the counting of; to count back."
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  "word": "untell"
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          "text": "Narrative untells itself by multiplying itself into discontinuous \"turns\" that cannot be resolved into a continuous story.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Diane DuBose Brunner, Between the masks: resisting the politics of essentialism, page 29:",
          "text": "Trinh (1991) writes that untelling the stories of privilege and marginality is a form of displacement that takes a long time.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Patrick Bizzaro, More lights than one: on the fiction of Fred Chappell, page 103:",
          "text": "And once his story was told, it was told; there was no way to untell it, no way to make himself look good.",
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        "To withdraw or retract (something told); to never have told."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To withdraw or retract (something told); to never have told."
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        "(transitive, archaic) To undo or reverse the counting of; to count back."
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