Unbay vs Unsay - What's the difference?
unbay | unsay |
(obsolete) To free from the restraint of anything that surrounds or encloses.
To withdraw, retract (something said).
*1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
*:And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad [...].
To not have said (since this is physically impossible usually in the subjunctive, as I wish I could unsay ).
:There are somethings I'd like to unsay ... to my boss... right before he decided to fire me.
As verbs the difference between unbay and unsay
is that unbay is to free from the restraint of anything that surrounds or encloses while unsay is to withdraw, retract (something said).unbay
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Verb
(en verb)- I ought to unbay the current of my passion. — Norris.
