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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unlose en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + lose.

Meanings

  1. (rare, transitive) To recover (something lost); to find again.
    • Do words make the event realer? Do words bring back the lost moment, and hold it again, and by avowing its loss, right here, with her, the one from whom the event was lost, he, they, words, could unlose it, enter the moment as if it were still to be, and now actually is? 2008, Robert Kelly, The Book from the Sky, page 199:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unloses Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unlost Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unlost Tense=Past lexicographic
unlosing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic