Unbe

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To lack being; to be nonexistent. intransitive, no-past, poetic, rare

    "I cannot bear my fate as writ, / I'd have my life unbe; Would turn my memory to a blot, / Make every relic of me rot, / My doings be as they were not, / And what they've brought to me!"

  2. 2
    To deprive of being; to make nonexistent. no-past, poetic, rare, transitive

Example

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"I cannot bear my fate as writ, / I'd have my life unbe; Would turn my memory to a blot, / Make every relic of me rot, / My doings be as they were not, / And what they've brought to me!"

Etymology

From un- + be.

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