unfoolv.
(un- prefix2 1d(b).)
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the world > health and disease > mental health > cause to be sane [verb (transitive)] > restore to sanity
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the world > health and disease > mental health > be sane [verb (reflexive)] > become sane
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. ii. 105 I, but if it proue true (Mr. Page) haue you any way then to vnfoole me againe. View more context for this quotation
1632 Strafford in Life (1892) 301 The sooner wee vnfoole ourselues of this errore, the sooner wee shall learne to know our selues.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes ii. iii. 74 Will no plump Fee Bribe thy false fists..T'unfoole whom thou hast fool'd?
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v.a1616- to beggar belief
- to beggar description, compare
- to begin a toast
- to begin at
- to begin at formerly from
- to begin at the wrong end
- to begin by
- to begin life
- to begin the board
- to begin the board, dais
- to begin the dais
- to begin the world
- to begin to a person
- to begin upon a person
- to begin with
- to begin with formerly at
- to begin with formerly by
- to begin with formerly from
- to begin with,
- to begin with, withal obs
- to begin withal
- to begin, lead the dance
- to behave towards or to
- to behold
- to behold no person