unbe

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
9
Letters
4

Definition of unbe

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (no-past, poetic, rare, transitive)To deprive (someone or something) of being; to make nonexistent.
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verb

  1. (no-past, poetic, rare, transitive)To deprive (someone or something) of being; to make nonexistent.
  2. (intransitive, no-past, poetic, rare)To lack being; to be nonexistent.
    “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.”

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Etymology

From un- + be.

Anagrams of unbe

1 play · some not in Scrabble

Words you can make from unbe

9 playable · top: BEN (5 pts)

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3-letter words

3 words

2-letter words

5 words

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