Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To become ignorant of, or unacquainted with, as something already known; lose the knowledge of.
- Not to know; to have no knowledge of or acquaintance with.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of.
- transitive verb obsolete To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of.
- adjective obsolete Unknown.
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- verb To
undo the process ofknowing , to loseknowledge of something.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As hard as critics can try, it is difficult to "unknow" something, especially when it is related to something we are trying to analyze.
Flower's Precious Play SVGL 2009
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The soldiers 'descriptions of carnage and fear and terror were things the human mind could not "unknow," their imprint unerasable.
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On the one hand you need to listen to what people say about your game; you're not going to find all the issues yourself, or be able to see the game with fresh eyes something many developers and execs underestimate, thinking they can 'unknow' what they already know and be an effective stand-in for a new player.
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We also take 1 gallon milk jugs and let someone set them out at unknow distances.
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We also take 1 gallon milk jugs and let someone set them out at unknow distances.
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Universe Empire Star have suffered first and unknow destory or lossing.
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When people come up with simple ideas and apply them with every possible high tech data like a real thermal transducer, manipulating thermal activity, being like the number eight some think of me as being the infinite unkown to beings with 99.9% absolute power my soul mate we to each other being the first unknow last unkown first known and last known as we gain absolute power.
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Occasionally you learn something about someone you can't unknow.
Selected Tweets (June – November 2011), Edited and in Near Chronologic Order John Minichillo 2011
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But the urge now is to unknow the urgency with which I forgot my self-description.
Forgetfulness 2010
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Anyway, it is not as though the council discovered unknow letters and books to include.
TEXAS FAITH: Why are millennials dropping out? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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