undiscover
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undiscover (third-person singular simple present undiscovers, present participle undiscovering, simple past and past participle undiscovered)
- (transitive) To forget or revoke the discovery of (something discovered earlier).
- 1995, John Dalmas, The Lion of Farside[1]:
- It's been happening since man discovered war, and it'll keep on till he undiscovers it, if he ever […]
- 2013, Rusty Whitener, A Season of Mysteries[2]:
- “I want...” I began, “I suppose...I am trying, for lack of a better word, to un-recall these words. To undiscover these things.”
“Don't you mean forget?” Throneberry said.
I shook my head. “I don't know. Maybe. But forgetting is too weak a word for what I want. I want the words to disappear not just from my mind, but from this...”
- 2020, Malachy Tallack, The Un-Discovered Islands:
- In fact, as it turned out, Sandy Island had been undiscovered more than once already. Most recently, in the year 2000, a group of amateur radio enthusiasts had noticed its absence while travelling to the Chesterfield Islands, 100km to the west.