Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to unhive
Participle: unhived
Gerund: unhiving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | unhive |
| you | unhive |
| he;she;it | unhives |
| we | unhive |
| you | unhive |
| they | unhive |
Perfect
| I | have unhived |
| you | have unhived |
| he;she;it | has unhived |
| we | have unhived |
| you | have unhived |
| they | have unhived |
Past
| I | unhived |
| you | unhived |
| he;she;it | unhived |
| we | unhived |
| you | unhived |
| they | unhived |
Pluperfect
| I | had unhived |
| you | had unhived |
| he;she;it | had unhived |
| we | had unhived |
| you | had unhived |
| they | had unhived |
Future
| I | will unhive |
| you | will unhive |
| he;she;it | will unhive |
| we | will unhive |
| you | will unhive |
| they | will unhive |
Future Perfect
| I | will have unhived |
| you | will have unhived |
| he;she;it | will have unhived |
| we | will have unhived |
| you | will have unhived |
| they | will have unhived |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | unhive |
| you | unhive |
| he;she;it | unhive |
| we | unhive |
| you | unhive |
| they | unhive |
Perfect
| I | have unhived |
| you | have unhived |
| he;she;it | have unhived |
| we | have unhived |
| you | have unhived |
| they | have unhived |
Imperfect
| I | unhived |
| you | unhived |
| he;she;it | unhived |
| we | unhived |
| you | unhived |
| they | unhived |
Pluperfect
| I | had unhived |
| you | had unhived |
| he;she;it | had unhived |
| we | had unhived |
| you | had unhived |
| they | had unhived |
Conditional
Present
| I | would unhive |
| you | would unhive |
| he;she;it | would unhive |
| we | would unhive |
| you | would unhive |
| they | would unhive |
Perfect
| I | would have unhived |
| you | would have unhived |
| he;she;it | would have unhived |
| we | would have unhived |
| you | would have unhived |
| they | would have unhived |
Imperative
| you | unhive |
| we | Let's unhive |
| you | unhive |
Verbs conjugated like 'unhive'
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 'unhive'
inhive,
ungive,
unhide,
unhire,
unlive,
unwive,
chive,
enlive,
enrive,
hive,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From un- + hive.
Sample Sentences
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[T]he Mercers encreaſing prodigiouſly vvent back into the City; there like Bees unhiv'd they hover about a vvhile, not knovving vvhere to fix; but at laſt, as if they vvould come back to the old Hive in Pater-noſter Rovv, but could not be admitted, the ſvvarm ſettled on Lu[d]gate-hill. [1727, [Daniel Defoe], “Of such Tradesmen who by the Necessary Consequences of Their Business are Oblig’d to be Accessary to the Propagation of Vice, and the Encrease of the Wickedness of the Times, and that All the Immorality of the Age is Not Occasion’d by the Ale-houses and the Taverns”, in The Compleat English Tradesman. […], volume II, London: […] Charles Rivington […], →OCLC, part II, pages 163–163:]
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and unhived those numerous swarms of labouring bees which used to drop honey-dews over all this kingdom, to place in their room swarms of senseless drones. [1867, James Bass Mullinger, Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century, page 179:]
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His broad hands smoothed her head, as fain to brush it free From fancies, swarms that stung like bees unhived. [1882, Robert Browning, Dramatic Idyls, page 66:]
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But if there be any who are herin delinquent; it were more justice and generosity to give a Catalogue of such Drones to those who have an undoubted Power to make them Labour, or Unhive them: And that the Righteous be not as the Wicked. [1677, Lancelot Addison, A Modest Plea for the Clergy, page 98:]
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We need no more, one age will discover the effects; the people insensibly file northwards, where they intrench themselves in the mud; the ocean is debarred her wantering, the hollow land made frim, the lakes drained; the loose sand becomes a stable foundation for great emporiums; the ancient cities of Flanders, Brabant, and Arois unhive themselves into the new ones of Holland, Zealand, and West Friesland; and, in a word, the younger colonies (notwithstanding the disadvantages of nature) yielding an asylum to liberty, shall equal and far exceed what the former ever were. [1814, Walter Scott, A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts, page 400:]
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We conquering Ensigns to Rome might extend, If each man was faithful and true to his friend; There to unhive the old Pope and his Crew, And lead them in Triumph New London to view : [1883, The Roxburghe Ballads - Volume 2, Part 1, page 246:]
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Here Harlotry unhives her swarms Of puffed and painted faces, Parading their half-faded charms With meretricious graces. [2023, Nomentino, Nuova Italia, page 203:]
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It would have been a continual hell of time-consuming impugnable argument, bringing on the kind of conjugal weather that closesup the rose and unhives the family for lack of any honey whatsoever. [2015, Jonathan Bayliss, Prologos:]
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You can't unsocialize your self, and you can't unhive yourself. We are merely a goal-less hive, a hive without purpose other than sustenance. [2016, Eric Lunde, The Book of Accidents, page 102:]
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The Russian general staff is said to have a hive mind. "Unhive” it by sowing uncertainty, causing its officers to make bad decisions that can be exploited. [2019, Sean McFate, Goliath:]