Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to unmother
Participle: unmothered
Gerund: unmothering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | unmother |
| you | unmother |
| he;she;it | unmothers |
| we | unmother |
| you | unmother |
| they | unmother |
Perfect
| I | have unmothered |
| you | have unmothered |
| he;she;it | has unmothered |
| we | have unmothered |
| you | have unmothered |
| they | have unmothered |
Past
| I | unmothered |
| you | unmothered |
| he;she;it | unmothered |
| we | unmothered |
| you | unmothered |
| they | unmothered |
Pluperfect
| I | had unmothered |
| you | had unmothered |
| he;she;it | had unmothered |
| we | had unmothered |
| you | had unmothered |
| they | had unmothered |
Future
| I | will unmother |
| you | will unmother |
| he;she;it | will unmother |
| we | will unmother |
| you | will unmother |
| they | will unmother |
Future Perfect
| I | will have unmothered |
| you | will have unmothered |
| he;she;it | will have unmothered |
| we | will have unmothered |
| you | will have unmothered |
| they | will have unmothered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | unmother |
| you | unmother |
| he;she;it | unmother |
| we | unmother |
| you | unmother |
| they | unmother |
Perfect
| I | have unmothered |
| you | have unmothered |
| he;she;it | have unmothered |
| we | have unmothered |
| you | have unmothered |
| they | have unmothered |
Imperfect
| I | unmothered |
| you | unmothered |
| he;she;it | unmothered |
| we | unmothered |
| you | unmothered |
| they | unmothered |
Pluperfect
| I | had unmothered |
| you | had unmothered |
| he;she;it | had unmothered |
| we | had unmothered |
| you | had unmothered |
| they | had unmothered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would unmother |
| you | would unmother |
| he;she;it | would unmother |
| we | would unmother |
| you | would unmother |
| they | would unmother |
Perfect
| I | would have unmothered |
| you | would have unmothered |
| he;she;it | would have unmothered |
| we | would have unmothered |
| you | would have unmothered |
| they | would have unmothered |
Imperative
| you | unmother |
| we | Let's unmother |
| you | unmother |
Verbs conjugated like 'unmother'
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 'unmother'
mother,
smother,
unfather,
unmiter,
untether,
bebother,
bother,
brother,
fother,
frother,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From un- + mother.
Sample Sentences
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One day modi mother and unmothered. True twinnes in birth and death ; together drown in this sad stream. [1640, Ovid, translated by John Gower, edited by Edward Alliston, Ovids Festivalls: Or Romane Calendar - Issue 2, page 33:]
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My father is departed, I with thee am fallen — thyself art dead and gone : but our foes laugh ; and our unmothered mother is frantic with delight; on whom thou oftentimes wouldst send me word in secret that thou wert on the point thyself to come an avenger. [1823, Sophocles, The Tragedies of Sophocles - Volume 2, page 195:]
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I e'en quake to proceed, my spirit turns edge, I fear me she's unmother'd; yet I'll venture. [1966, Cyril Tourneur, Lawrence J. Ross, The Revenger's Tragedy, page 34:]
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The dead daughter presents the already complex mother/daughter relation and unveils in it the (abject?) desire to unmother: in Beloved, the killing of the daughter is done to free her from a future of slavery, and in this it discloses another story, [1999, Anglistica - Volume 3, page 97:]
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Whatever keeps me from my beginnings, whatever chops me off and isolates me from my whole life is to the harm of my spirit; it unmothers me; it dispossesses me of my heritage and of my truth, and how can I pass on what is mine if I have not received what was others' and passed on to me? he thought. [1952, William Goyen, Ghost and flesh: stories and tales, page 132:]
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In his poems, Jarrell can finesse the emotional trauma of having been unmothered by a mother who betrayed him both with a divorce and with a displacing younger brother, by now being the mother in the domain of his poetry, wholly on his own terms. [2006, Lorrie Goldensohn, Dismantling Glory:]