Unmail

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To undo the act of mailing; to recover from the postal system before delivery. transitive

    "Was it even possible to unmail a letter? She might have to lie, might have to say the letter contained explosives, or some kind of poison. Something extremely illegal."

Example

More examples

"Was it even possible to unmail a letter? She might have to lie, might have to say the letter contained explosives, or some kind of poison. Something extremely illegal."

Etymology

From un- + mail.

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