unget

present singular third person ungets · participle present ungetting · past ungot · participle past ungot · participle past ungotten

1. The opposite action of get (in various senses)
   1. transitiveTo 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. transitiveTo 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

      1 more example

      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