Dictionary

uneat en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + eat.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To undo or reverse the eating of.
   • In this chapter we will consider the development of an understanding of human history which was satisfying on both a mythic and an intellectual level; mythic, in that there evolved a symbolically adequate formulation of the accessibility of the golden age; intellectual, in that man was not asked to uneat the apple. 2008, John L. Greenway, The Golden Horns: Mythic Imagination and the Nordic Past, page 139:
   • And now I wished I could uneat them somehow. The ghost of those peas was rising in my throat and fuddling my brain, making it difficult to think or speak with any sense at all. 1998, Martin Greenberg, August is a Good Time for Killing, page 151:
   • Once we've eaten from it, we can't uneat it. 2013, S.G. Browne, Lucky Bastard, page 209:

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