unsolve
English
Verb
unsolve (third-person singular simple present unsolves, present participle unsolving, simple past and past participle unsolved)
- (obsolete) To solve. [17th c.]
- 1631, Francis Quarles, The History of Samson:
- Perchance, my Fancy would have bin so kinde, / T‘ unsolve the doubts of my perplexed minde.
- 1631, Francis Quarles, The History of Samson:
- To undo or remove the solution to a problem; to put something into an unsolved state.
- 2001, Dave Rosi, One Good Deed:
- “But I cannot allow you to use my cousin to solve or, I suppose, more precisely, to unsolve your case.”
- 2011, Solomon Belay Faris, (title):
- Ethiopia and the Generation That Unsolves Problems.
- 2001, Dave Rosi, One Good Deed:
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