Untell

Quick meaning: Untell is a verb meaning (transitive) To withdraw or retract (something told); to never have told.

Meaning

(transitive) To withdraw or retract (something told); to never have told.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, archaic) To undo or reverse the counting of; to count back.

Example Sentences

That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, / To untell the days, and to redeem these hours.

And once his story was told, it was told; there was no way to untell it, no way to make himself look good.

Narrative untells itself by multiplying itself into discontinuous "turns" that cannot be resolved into a continuous story.

Trinh (1991) writes that untelling the stories of privilege and marginality is a form of displacement that takes a long time.

Word Forms

• untells
• untelling
• untold

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unsay, unrelease, unstate, withdraw, recall, unspeak.

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