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Unpay

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Unpay
    To undo, take back, or annul, as a payment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. unpay
    To undo; annul by payment.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Unpay
    un-pā′ to annul by payment, to make undone.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1st pref. un-, + pay,

Usage in the news

Last week a tax lien was filed by the IRS against Bow Wow for unpayed taxes that date back to 2006 which added over the amount of $100,000. u92online.com

Usage in literature

Not one of them that did not owe him an unpayable debt of gratitude. "Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed" by Edna Ferber

However, the debts have been paid, and we can't unpay them. "The Man" by Bram Stoker

Further, in the application of each parable, it is God to whom this unpayable debt is due. "The Teaching of Jesus" by George Jackson

He became an unpaying guest himself. "What eight million women want" by Rheta Childe Dorr

And in effect He says what we have been forgiven by God is as an unpayable amount. "Quiet Talks on Prayer" by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

There is no new business, no foreign trade, sufficient to take up old obligations and renew those which are unpayable. "New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915" by Various

Unpayable spots are always left as pillars, for obvious reasons. "Principles of Mining" by Herbert C. Hoover

If to one man we seamen owe a debt unpayable, Marconi holds the bond. "Merchantmen-at-Arms" by David W. Bone

Many of his personal debts were unpaid and unpayable. "The Cottage of Delight" by Will N. Harben

Usage in poetry
Their name! Let me hear it -- the symbol
Of unpaid -- unpayable debt,
For the men to whom I owed God's Peace,
I put off with a cigarette.