undissemble

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verb

To reveal one's dissimulation; to admit to lying.

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Meanings

verbundissemble (third-person singular simple present undissembles, present participle undissembling, simple past and past participle undissembled)

present singular third person undissembles · participle present undissembling · participle past undissembled · past undissembled

  1. archaicrarereflexiveTo reveal one's dissimulation; to admit to lying.
    1 more example

    What inscrutable thing was it, that so suddenly had seized him, and made him a falsifyer—ay, a falsifyer and nothing less—to his own dearly-beloved, and confiding mother? […] But, nevertheless, on strict introspection, he felt, that he would not willingly have it otherwise; not willingly would he now undissemble himself in this matter to his mother.

    1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Origin

From un- + dissemble.

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APA

undissemble. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undissemble

MLA

“undissemble.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undissemble. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undissemble,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undissemble.

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