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Meaning of unbe | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. To lack being; to be nonexistent.
    intransitive, no-past, poetic, rare
  2. To deprive of being; to make nonexistent.
    no-past, poetic, rare, transitive

Examples

“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!”
“There is a saying that unseen is as good as unbeen; but in this case it was otherwise—unseen, Master Malrubius was more palpably present than ever before.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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