unplay

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unplay

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From un- + play.

verb unplays · unplaying · unplayed

transitive Hypothetically, to undo the playing of. I feel like a traitor, but what's done is done. I can't unplay that note, even if it was a sour one.
ambitransitive To interact with something in a way that subverts the conventions of playing. Flanagan outlines three kinds of critical play enacted by Victorian girls with dolls: In doll play, unplaying manifests in children abusing their dolls, "killing" them, or some other revision of the "care giving" framework […]

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@misc{unplay_2026,
  title = {unplay},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unplay},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}