unbe
verb
Elementary
1
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.”
2
To deprive of being; to make nonexistent.
From un- + be.
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