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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

undissemble en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + dissemble.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, rare, reflexive) To reveal one's dissimulation; to admit to lying.
    • What inscrutable thing was it, that so suddenly had seized him, and made him a falsifyer—ay, a falsifyer and nothing less—to his own dearly-beloved, and confiding mother? […] But, nevertheless, on strict introspection, he felt, that he would not willingly have it otherwise; not willingly would he now undissemble himself in this matter to his mother. 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

Forms

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undissembling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
undissembles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
undissembled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
undissembled Tense=Past lexicographic