untreasure en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + treasure.
Meanings
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(obsolete, poetic, transitive) To despoil of treasure.
When Cluffe […] returned to the drawing-room, […] he was a good deal chagrined to find the drawing-room 'untreasured of its mistress.'
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
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(obsolete, poetic, transitive) To display or set forth.
Before me, careless lying, Young Love his ware comes crying Full soon the elf untreasures His pack of pains and pleasures.
1916, Austin Dobson, A Madrigal:J. Mitford the quaintness with which he untreasured, as by rote, the stores of his memory
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| untreasured | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| untreasured | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| untreasuring | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| untreasures | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |