Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unchild

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-child
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make (someone) childless.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Though in this city he / Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one, / Which to this hour bewail the injury, / Yet he shall have a noble memory."
"No appetite, that like the unchilded sea / […] hungers for such orts / As riot spares lean want, is yet so wide, / So vast of ravin or so blind in scope, / As can abide the chewed and perished meats / That relish died upon."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English child English unchild From un- + child.

Usage

Inflected Forms

unchilds (present, singular) unchilding (participle, present) unchilded (participle, past) unchilded (past)

Frequently Paired Words

unchilding

Questions

What does unchild mean?: To make (someone) childless.
Where does unchild come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English child English unchild From un- + child.

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