different between unsee vs unwatch
unsee
English
Etymology
un- +? see
Verb
unsee (third-person singular simple present unsees, present participle unseeing, simple past unsaw, past participle unseen)
- To undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of having seen something.
- 1829, Robert Taylor, "Infidel Mission.—Fifteenth Bulletin", in The Lion, volume IV, number 10, page 304:
- We have shown the world, and it cannot be unseen, it cannot be unknown, it cannot be forgotten, that Christianity cannot be defended on any ground where Infidelity can get an inch of fair play against it.
- 1897 March 20, George Bernard Shaw, "Shakespeare in Manchester", printed in 1906, Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Bernard Shaw,[sic] Volume 2, Brentano's (1922), page 215:
- I have only seen the performance once; and I would not unsee it again if I could; but none the less I am a broken man after it.
- 1969, Joseph McElroy, Hind's Kidnap, page 180:
- once you’ve seen this you bear always the burden of its sight. And, as Laura says, you can’t unsee it.
- 1977, Stephen King, The Shining:
- Once you saw the face of a god in those jumbled blacks and whites, it was everybody out of the pool—you could never unsee it.
- 1991, E. Roy Weintraub, Stabilizing Dynamics, page 94:
- Once one has “seen” the well-known gestalt psychology drawing of the young woman in a fur coat, she cannot be “unseen” after one notices the alternative, an old crone
- 1829, Robert Taylor, "Infidel Mission.—Fifteenth Bulletin", in The Lion, volume IV, number 10, page 304:
Translations
See also
- what has been seen cannot be unseen
Anagrams
- ensue, seuen
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unwatch
English
Etymology
un- +? watch
Verb
unwatch (third-person singular simple present unwatches, present participle unwatching, simple past and past participle unwatched)
- (transitive, rare) To undo the watching of something; to unsee.
- 2004, Charles Roxburgh, Matt Farley, Tom Scalzo, ShockJuly: An Adventure in Horror (page 65)
- I wish I could unwatch this nightmare so that I wouldn't have this baggage knocking around in my brain for the rest of my life. Never, for the love of God, watch this movie.
- 2004, Charles Roxburgh, Matt Farley, Tom Scalzo, ShockJuly: An Adventure in Horror (page 65)
- (transitive, Wiktionary and WMF jargon) To remove (a webpage) from one's watchlist.
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