Unlose
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To recover (something lost); to find again. rare, transitive
"Do words make the event realer? Do words bring back the lost moment, and hold it again, and by avowing its loss, right here, with her, the one from whom the event was lost, he, they, words, could unlose it, enter the moment as if it were still to be, and now actually is?"
Example
More examples"Do words make the event realer? Do words bring back the lost moment, and hold it again, and by avowing its loss, right here, with her, the one from whom the event was lost, he, they, words, could unlose it, enter the moment as if it were still to be, and now actually is?"
Etymology
From un- + lose.
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