Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to unperson
Participle: unpersoned
Gerund: unpersoning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | unperson |
| you | unperson |
| he;she;it | unpersons |
| we | unperson |
| you | unperson |
| they | unperson |
Perfect
| I | have unpersoned |
| you | have unpersoned |
| he;she;it | has unpersoned |
| we | have unpersoned |
| you | have unpersoned |
| they | have unpersoned |
Past
| I | unpersoned |
| you | unpersoned |
| he;she;it | unpersoned |
| we | unpersoned |
| you | unpersoned |
| they | unpersoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had unpersoned |
| you | had unpersoned |
| he;she;it | had unpersoned |
| we | had unpersoned |
| you | had unpersoned |
| they | had unpersoned |
Future
| I | will unperson |
| you | will unperson |
| he;she;it | will unperson |
| we | will unperson |
| you | will unperson |
| they | will unperson |
Future Perfect
| I | will have unpersoned |
| you | will have unpersoned |
| he;she;it | will have unpersoned |
| we | will have unpersoned |
| you | will have unpersoned |
| they | will have unpersoned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | unperson |
| you | unperson |
| he;she;it | unperson |
| we | unperson |
| you | unperson |
| they | unperson |
Perfect
| I | have unpersoned |
| you | have unpersoned |
| he;she;it | have unpersoned |
| we | have unpersoned |
| you | have unpersoned |
| they | have unpersoned |
Imperfect
| I | unpersoned |
| you | unpersoned |
| he;she;it | unpersoned |
| we | unpersoned |
| you | unpersoned |
| they | unpersoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had unpersoned |
| you | had unpersoned |
| he;she;it | had unpersoned |
| we | had unpersoned |
| you | had unpersoned |
| they | had unpersoned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would unperson |
| you | would unperson |
| he;she;it | would unperson |
| we | would unperson |
| you | would unperson |
| they | would unperson |
Perfect
| I | would have unpersoned |
| you | would have unpersoned |
| he;she;it | would have unpersoned |
| we | would have unpersoned |
| you | would have unpersoned |
| they | would have unpersoned |
Imperative
| you | unperson |
| we | Let's unperson |
| you | unperson |
Verbs conjugated like 'unperson'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'unperson'
deperson,
person,
unpoison,
unprison,
unreason,
unseason,
enprison,
misperson,
uncensor,
underdo,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From un- + person. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to a person who has been executed or has fallen out of favor; whose entire history has been erased.
Sample Sentences
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Unhappily, shortcomings here on the part of even a few schools provide a handle for the type of irresponsible generalization that recently labeled the lay professor on the Catholic campus "unwanted, unpaid, uncared for and unpersoned." [1958 May 3, anonymous author, “Lay Professors in Catholic Colleges”, in America, volume 99, number 5, →ISSN, page 160:]
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Could a decision in the clinic’s favor today mean that, in that future, the lab-gestated babies would be legally unpersoned, because the womb had been held to impart a worth the child did not have on its own? [2024, Leah Libresco Sargeant, “Embryos as Schrödinger’s Persons”, in The New Atlantis, number 76, Center for the Study of Technology and Society, →ISSN, page 41:]