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third-person singular simple present unknows, present participle unknowing, simple past unknew, past participle unknown
To undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something. quotations examples
To awaken the conscious self to the principle of the whole or Tao one needs to forget oneself, so that in knowing one unknows.
2004, William Joseph Jackson, Heaven's fractal net: retrieving lost visions in the humanities: Volume 1, page 205
You clearly care about this employee’s well-being and want to be supportive. Even though you can’t unknow what you saw on TikTok, this is not your problem to solve.
2023 February 3, Roxane Gay, “My Co-Worker’s Baby Photo Gallery Put Me Over the Edge”, in The New York Times