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Unban vs Unbay - What's the difference?

unban | unbay |

As verbs the difference between unban and unbay

is that unban is to lift a ban against while unbay is (obsolete|transitive) to free from the restraint of anything that surrounds or encloses.

unban

English

Verb

(unbann)
  • To lift a ban against.
  • * 2000 , Julian Kunnie, Is apartheid really dead?
    • De Klerk was not acting totally unilaterally and independently when he announced the decision to unban previously banned parties like the ANC...
  • * 2004 , Paul Mutton, IRC Hacks
    • ChanServ can unban you from your channel when someone has banned you...

    unbay

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To free from the restraint of anything that surrounds or encloses.
    • I ought to unbay the current of my passion. — Norris.
    (Webster 1913)