unrecognize
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unrecognize (third-person singular simple present unrecognizes, present participle unrecognizing, simple past and past participle unrecognized)
- (transitive) To cease to recognize.
- 2007 August 15, “Reading Lincoln’s Face”, in New York Times[1]:
- We are so good that it is almost impossible to unrecognize a face in order to notice the asymmetries that help us first recognize it.