unmail
English
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editunmail (third-person singular simple present unmails, present participle unmailing, simple past and past participle unmailed)
- (transitive) To undo the act of mailing; to recover from the postal system before delivery.
- 2013, Elizabeth Bass, The Way Back to Happiness:
- Was it even possible to unmail a letter? She might have to lie, might have to say the letter contained explosives, or some kind of poison. Something extremely illegal.