Definition of "unring" [unring]

• To reverse ringing (verb)

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• "But no matter what happens, as Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry told me, "You can't unring the Liberty Bell.""
• "The obstructionists cannot unring the bells we've heard."
• "The late American journalist Shana Alexander once put it this way: "Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.""