unseason

unseason

English

Etymology

un- +‎ season

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈsiːzən/

Verb

unseason (third-person singular simple present unseasons, present participle unseasoning, simple past and past participle unseasoned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make unseasoned; to deprive of seasoning.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To strike unseasonably; to affect disagreeably or unfavorably.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet to Sir Walter Raleigh

     Why do I send this rustic madrigal, / That may thy tuneful ear unseason quite?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unseason in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)