Unsign
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To remove one's signature from (something one has signed). intransitive, transitive
"Listen : I say we signed, and there's no unsigning. And the voyage is never completed, though some may ask What creature is this, with the sea through his eyes looking[?] […] We signed and there's no unsigning. Hell, no, but she rolls And she rolls us like foam from her flanks, the gay mulatto."
- 2 To declare void one's signing of (a treaty).
"Third, transnational legal process could be used to erode the force of the novel US tactic of unsigning the Rome Treaty."
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More examples"Listen : I say we signed, and there's no unsigning. And the voyage is never completed, though some may ask What creature is this, with the sea through his eyes looking[?] […] We signed and there's no unsigning. Hell, no, but she rolls And she rolls us like foam from her flanks, the gay mulatto."
Etymology
From un- + sign.