Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to unfather
Participle: unfatherd
Gerund: unfathering
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | unfather |
| you | unfather |
| he;she;it | unfathers |
| we | unfather |
| you | unfather |
| they | unfather |
Perfect
| I | have unfatherd |
| you | have unfatherd |
| he;she;it | has unfatherd |
| we | have unfatherd |
| you | have unfatherd |
| they | have unfatherd |
Past
| I | unfatherd |
| you | unfatherd |
| he;she;it | unfatherd |
| we | unfatherd |
| you | unfatherd |
| they | unfatherd |
Pluperfect
| I | had unfatherd |
| you | had unfatherd |
| he;she;it | had unfatherd |
| we | had unfatherd |
| you | had unfatherd |
| they | had unfatherd |
Future
| I | will unfather |
| you | will unfather |
| he;she;it | will unfather |
| we | will unfather |
| you | will unfather |
| they | will unfather |
Future Perfect
| I | will have unfatherd |
| you | will have unfatherd |
| he;she;it | will have unfatherd |
| we | will have unfatherd |
| you | will have unfatherd |
| they | will have unfatherd |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | unfather |
| you | unfather |
| he;she;it | unfather |
| we | unfather |
| you | unfather |
| they | unfather |
Perfect
| I | have unfatherd |
| you | have unfatherd |
| he;she;it | have unfatherd |
| we | have unfatherd |
| you | have unfatherd |
| they | have unfatherd |
Imperfect
| I | unfatherd |
| you | unfatherd |
| he;she;it | unfatherd |
| we | unfatherd |
| you | unfatherd |
| they | unfatherd |
Pluperfect
| I | had unfatherd |
| you | had unfatherd |
| he;she;it | had unfatherd |
| we | had unfatherd |
| you | had unfatherd |
| they | had unfatherd |
Conditional
Present
| I | would unfather |
| you | would unfather |
| he;she;it | would unfather |
| we | would unfather |
| you | would unfather |
| they | would unfather |
Perfect
| I | would have unfatherd |
| you | would have unfatherd |
| he;she;it | would have unfatherd |
| we | would have unfatherd |
| you | would have unfatherd |
| they | would have unfatherd |
Imperative
| you | unfather |
| we | Let's unfather |
| you | unfather |
Verbs conjugated like 'unfather'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'unfather'
unfeather,
father,
ingather,
unfathom,
unfetter,
unflatter,
unmother,
untether,
unwater,
unweather,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From un- + father.
Sample Sentences
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A son no son, unfathers me. Earth, sky and deep, rise, come, be father for me: ascend before him into the day, to cover him from all his light, and your annihilation fall on him! [1978, Plays and Players - Issue 1; Issue 26, page 46:]
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More strongly still: "Visitation unfathers men. This phenomenon gradually strangles the father-child relationship." [2000, Gilbert Meilaender, Things that Count: Essays Moral and Theological, page 234:]
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Some of these feelings, in all their confusion, press into the flamboyant statement with which he unfathers Cordelia at 1.1.116: The barbarous Scythian Or he that makes his generation messes To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and relieved, As thou my sometime daughter. [1979, “CR. The Centennial Review - Volume 23”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), number 358:]
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Yet how is the unfathering related to usurpation? Is the situation as Oedipal as its rhetoric suggests? Oedipus encounters and kills a traveler on the road outside Thebes, and by doing so unfathers himself. [1988, J. Douglas Kneale, Monumental writing: aspects of rhetoric in Wordsworth's poetry:]
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Wendell's mother unfathers him twice-over (through dislike of her first husband) by giving him her maiden name and claiming his conception was immaculate (R, 20, 46-47). [1991, Mary Lynn Broe, Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes, page 88:]