unlose

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verb

To recover (something lost); to find again.

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Meanings

verbunlose (third-person singular simple present unloses, present participle unlosing, simple past and past participle unlost)

present singular third person unloses · participle present unlosing · participle past unlost · past unlost

  1. raretransitiveTo recover (something lost); to find again.

    Do words make the event realer? Do words bring back the lost moment, and hold it again, and by avowing its loss, right here, with her, the one from whom the event was lost, he, they, words, could unlose it, enter the moment as if it were still to be, and now actually is?

    2008, Robert Kelly, The Book from the Sky, page 199

Origin

From un- + lose.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

unlose. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlose

MLA

“unlose.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlose. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unlose,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unlose.

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