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to unring

to unring

9.9
To stop a ringing sound like a bell or alarm
  • verb
  • /ʌnˈrɪŋ/
translation icon : silenciar
  • It took several minutes to unring the persistent doorbell after the prank.

It's like a nice day outside and people are terrified and I'm like, yo, I don't know when that bell is going to unring.

Examples

  • After the ceremony, the caretaker unrings the church bell to signal the end.

  • Please unring that alarm!

  • They were unringing the alarm by carefully disconnecting its power supply.

  • He quickly unrings the phone before it disturbs the meeting.

  • She quickly grabbed the phone to unring the alarm before it woke everyone up.

  • He pressed the button to unring the doorbell, which had been buzzing incessantly.

  • In an effort to regain her peace, she had to unring the annoying notifications on her phone.

Synonyms

to silence
vsto unring
169 3.5

To stop someone from speaking or making noise

is used to end a ringing noise rather than make people quiet
to mute
vsto unring
21 3.1

To stop a sound or notification from making noise

stops a specific ringing sound such as an alarm or telephone

Antonyms

ring
203 1.0

The sound a bell or phone makes when struck

Idioms

to unring the bell
  • Informal
1 9.9

To try to undo something after it has happened and cannot be changed

How Ringing

peal
4 5.8
ring
203 1.0
to dampen
16 4.4
to muffle
64 5.8
to unring
9.9

Surface Forms

unring infinitive
unringing present participle
unrings third person singular
unrang past
unrang past participle

Morphology

unring = ring (transparent) = un + ring

This is a straightforward negation/cessation meaning: 'make not ring' or 'stop ringing'.

Etymology

Unring combines un- ('stop' or 'reverse') and ring, the sound made by a bell or alarm, so think of making that sound end. So to unring in this sense simply means to stop or silence a ringing noise.