unget
verb/ʌnˈɡɛt/
Etymology From un- + get; compare unbeget, Middle English ungeten (“unbegotten; not won; not captured”).
› The opposite action of get (in various senses)
1
To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.
- I'll diſovvn you, I'll diſinherit you, I'll unget you!1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 32:
2
To unacquire; relinquish; release; get rid of; lose; lose hold of; forget
- He felt himself in the position that having got the conviction he did not see how he was to unget it.1893, The Parliamentary Debates, page 1491:
- One senses from the paintings that followed his first explosion of production that he hoped to unget the hang of something he'd just gotten the hang of, to whittle down even further his self-professed paucity of conceptual and manual means.2012, Scott Rothkopf, Wade Guyton OS, page 27: