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unˈwinter, v.
[un-2 6 b, 5.]
1. intr. and trans. To lose, or divest of, the qualities of winter.
1611Florio (citing Dante), Suernare, to wax Sommer,..to vnwinter. 1892C. E. Norton Dante's Par. xxvii. 179 Ere January be all un-wintered [It. sverni] by that hundredth part which is down there neglected. 1944L. Mumford Condition of Man iv. 108 Spring was coming to Western Europe: the darkness and cold were almost over. But it did not unwinter suddenly.
†2. trans. To drive out of winter quarters. Obs.
1642Let. Student Oxf. 1 Whatsoever forces shall take up armes to unwinter his Majesty from Oxford. |