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Unburn vs Unborn - What's the difference?

unburn | unborn |

As a verb unburn

is to undergo the process of burning in reverse.

As an adjective unborn is

not yet born; yet to come; future.

As a noun unborn is

(countable) a single offspring at any stage of gestation.

unburn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To undergo the process of burning in reverse.
  • * 2009 , Bradley Harris Dowden, The Metaphysics of Time: A Dialogue (page 122)
    • In your class last year we learned that increase in entropy is why matches burn but never unburn , why cans rust but never unrust, and why engines are never perfectly efficient.

    unborn

    English

    (wikipedia unborn)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • not yet born; yet to come; future.
  • not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
  • existing without birth or beginning.

    • Noun

  • (countable) A single offspring at any stage of gestation.
  • * 2009 , Catherine Playoust & Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, "The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature", in Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (eds. Vanessa R. Sasson & Jane Marie Law), Oxford University Press (2009), ISBN 9780195380040, page 176:
    • Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.
  • (uncountable) offspring collectively.
    • Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn .

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