Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To recall, as what has been told; make as if not told or enumerated.
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- verb transitive To
withdraw orretract (somethingtold ); never to have told.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Once an origin story has been told you can't untell it.
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How about this idea, lets bring those jobs back untell freetrade means a even playing field for all.
Obama: Community colleges can help boost ailing economy 2009
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Nobody except me probably noticed it in the face of that “untell”.
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If only I could untell you much of what I told you last time we met , we might be meeting again….
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I will love you untell the end of time untell we meet again…gah!
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I've used HuffPost to tell otherwise untell-able stories a couple of times in the past.
Sheila Weller: Martha Coakley -- and One Nagging, Unsolved Case 2010
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Doze no soundz likee gud finks … duz da bunneh haf ta sitz inna da sun two longz untell heem iz awl driededed upz?
Once he was - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Up untell now i hatted cats because a cat atacked my dog and gave it a good gash in the ear but your books have tought me that cats are just trying to survive so i love cats and dogs!!
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He was thoroughly ashamed of the lie he had told, but he could not untell it.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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Parson Jones descanted upon the doctrine he had mentioned, as illustrated in the perplexities of cotton-growing, and concluded that there would always be "a special proviDENCE again 'cotton untell folks quits a-pressin' of it and haulin 'of it on Sundays!"
Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels
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