unsaying

But having said it, he spent the rest of the campaign unsaying it.

And then they unsay it, and they keep unsaying it, breaking their own rules over and over again.

"I unsay every word," said Mr. Merridew, for the second time, and more pointedly than ever; for, even in his really generous emotion, he could not help feeling that it was unsaying a great deal.

Highness has a manner to-night which disconcerts me by its novelty; a saying things and then unsaying them; suggesting and then, somehow, treading down the suggestion like a spark of your lightning.

Thus Picardy is famous for “hot heads;” and the Norman for son dit et son d�dit, “his saying and his unsaying!”