unchoose

present singular third person unchooses · participle present unchoosing · past unchose · participle past unchosen

1. transitiveTo not choose; choose against; deselect; reject.

   At the point where a goal is perceived as too easy to be worth investment of effort, effort is reduced as we “unchoose” the goal.

   2006, Richard Allen Wainess, The Effect of Navigation Maps on Problem Solving Tasks

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   One glory of a family is you'd never choose your kin and can't unchoose your daddy's hazel eyes — no more than you could unchoose your hand.

   2010, Andrew Hudgins, American Rendering

   In other words, if the depression is a survival mechanism chosen by the woman when she was a child, then it is within her power to unchoose depression and to heal.

   2011, Brad Fern, Tom Lutz, From Ashes to Gold