UNMAN (unmanned, unmanning)

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Irregular inflected forms: unmanned    , unmanning   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does unman mean? 

• UNMAN (verb)
  The verb UNMAN has 1 sense:

1. cause to lose one's nerve

  Familiarity information: UNMAN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNMAN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they unman    ... he / she / it unmans   
Past simple: unmanned   
Past participle: unmanned   
-ing form: unmanning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to lose one's nerve

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

an unmanning experience

Hypernyms (to "unman" is one way to...):

enervate; faze; unnerve; unsettle (disturb the composure of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The bad news will unman him

 Context examples 

The unmanned lunar missions are part of China’s ambitions to join the United States and Russia as a major space power.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

For example, in the case of the loss of a military or commercial satellite, the unmanned, reusable XS-1 could quickly be used to launch a replacement.

(Hypersonic Space Plane May Soon Be a Reality, VOA)

I could not think that this earth contained a place for sufferings and terrors so unmanning; and you can do but one thing, Utterson, to lighten this destiny, and that is to respect my silence.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It would quite unman me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)