uneatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From un- +‎ eat.

動詞

uneat (third-person singular simple present uneats, present participle uneating, simple past unate, past participle uneaten)

1. (transitive) To undo or reverse the eating of.
   • 1998, Martin Greenberg, August is a Good Time for Killing, page 151:

     And now I wished I could uneat them somehow. The ghost of those peas was rising in my throat and fuddling my brain, making it difficult to think or speak with any sense at all.

   • 2008, John L. Greenway, The Golden Horns: Mythic Imagination and the Nordic Past, page 139:

     In this chapter we will consider the development of an understanding of human history which was satisfying on both a mythic and an intellectual level; mythic, in that there evolved a symbolically adequate formulation of the accessibility of the golden age; intellectual, in that man was not asked to uneat the apple.

   • 2013, S.G. Browne, Lucky Bastard, page 209:

     Once we've eaten from it, we can't uneat it.

参考

• undrink

アナグラム

• Utena, unate, Auten