LekhoriLekhoriTo withdraw, retract (something said).
And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad […]
To cause something not to have been said; to make it so that one never said something (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive).
I wish I could unsay that.
From Middle English unseyen, unseien, from Old English onseċġan (“to deny, renounce”), from Proto-West Germanic *andasaggjan (“to unsay, renounce, deny”), equivalent to un- + say. Cognate with Dutch o...
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