unbe

English

Etymology

From un- + be.

Verb

unbe (no third-person singular simple present, present participle unbeing, no simple past, past participle unbeen)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To lack being; to be nonexistent.
    • 1901, Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present, Edinburgh & London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., page 234:
      I cannot bear my fate as writ,
      I'd have my life unbe; Would turn my memory to a blot,
      Make every relic of me rot,
      My doings be as they were not,
      And what they've brought to me!
  2. (transitive, rare) To deprive of being; to make nonexistent.

References

Japanese

Romanization

unbe

  1. Rōmaji transcription of うんべ
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