Meaning of untell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To withdraw or retract (something told); to never have told.
   transitive
2. To undo or reverse the counting of; to count back.
   archaic, transitive

Examples

“Narrative untells itself by multiplying itself into discontinuous "turns" that cannot be resolved into a continuous story.”

“Trinh (1991) writes that untelling the stories of privilege and marginality is a form of displacement that takes a long time.”

“And once his story was told, it was told; there was no way to untell it, no way to make himself look good.”

“That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, / To untell the days, and to redeem these hours.”

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