Unsay

Definition: Unsay

Unsay

Verb

1. Take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unsay" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Synonyms: Unsay

Tergiversation

Apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind; (abrogate); recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish, crawl.

Crosswords: Unsay

Albanian

mohoj fjala të veta, marr mbrapsht fjala të veta. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تراجع (back away, back down, back up, backwards, blemish, degradation, draw back, drawback, fall back, fall behind, give back, give ground, give the right of way, kick, lose ground, move back, palinode, recede, recess, recession, recoil, regress, regression, renege, retire, retract, retraction, retreat, retreating, retrogression, sell out, stand, take back, turn back, withdraw), ‏سحب كلامه (eat one's words, take back). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вземам назад думите си, оттеглям думите си. (various references)

Czech

odvolat (abolish, abrogate, annul, call, call away, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, cry off, draw off, recall, recant, renounce, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, swallow, take back, take off, undo, unswear, withdraw). (various references)

Farsi 

پس گرفتن(گفته), نگفتن , گفته نشدن , انکارکردن (Deny, Disclaim, Dispute, Gainsay, Renege, Renounce, Repudiate). (various references)

German

ungesagt machen (unsaid), widerrufen (cancel, countermand, recant, retract, revoke, revoked, to revoke, withdraw). (various references)

Greek 

ξελέγω, αναιρώ (confute, negate, negative, quash, recant, refute, rescind, reverse). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחזור בו (back down, back out of, back up, recant, reconsider, regret, repent, take back). (various references)

Hungarian

visszavon (back down, conceal, revoke, take back, to annul, to cry off, to recall, to recant, to repeal, to rescind, to retract, to revoke, to set back, to take back, withdraw), visszaszív (to countermand, to retract, to take back). (various references)

Italian

ritrattare (recant, retract, treat again), negare (abnegate, deny, disclaim, gainsay, negate, refuse, repudiate, withhold), disdire (call off, cancel, countermand). (various references)

Pig Latin

ayunsay.(various references)

Portuguese

retratar-se (disavow, recant), desdizer (recant). (various references)

Romanian

retracta (call back, eat one's words, recant, retract, shrink, withdraw). (various references)

Russian 

отрекаться от своих слов, брать назад свои слова (eat one's words). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

poricati (abnegate, disclaim), poreći (deny, disavow, gainsay, retract, traverse), opovrgnuti (confute, deny, rebut, refute, undo). (various references)

Spanish

retractarse (recant, retract). (various references)

Turkish

sözünü geri almak (back pedal, recant, retract, swallow one's words). (various references)

Ukrainian

зрікатися своїх слів. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "unsay": unsayable, unsaying, unsays. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Unsay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ansary, Ensay, enssay, Nsai, Nussey, Ornsay, unay, ungay, unjam, unray, unsat, unshy, unsly, usey, ussy, usy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: yuans.

-1 letter: anus, nays, yuan.

-2 letters: any, ays, nay, nus, sau, say, sun, syn, uns.

-3 letters: an, as, ay, na, nu, un, us, ya.

+1 letter: bunyas, synura, uneasy, unlays, unsays, yamuns, yulans.

+2 letters: guanays, runways, synurae, unhasty, uranyls, yanquis, yaupons.

+3 letters: aneurysm, gunplays, nylghaus, runaways, sunbeamy, uneasily, unflashy, unsafely, unsafety, unsavory, unsaying, unstably, unstayed, unsteady, unswayed.

+4 letters: amusingly, aneurysms, anhydrous, anonymous, anxiously, autodynes, buoyances, gunnybags, gunnysack, gymnasium, husbandly, husbandry, insularly, junkyards, nystagmus, picayunes, recusancy, sanctuary, sensually, staunchly, strangury, subagency, sublunary, subwaying, synagogue, tautonyms, tympanums, tyrannous, underlays, underpays, unsayable, unshapely, unsprayed, unusually, yokozunas.