Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To deprive of position, rank, or authority; depose.
- transitive verb To cause the ruin of; destroy.
- transitive verb To alter the nature or characteristics of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To destroy the essential form and qualities of; cause to cease to exist; annihilate; uncreate; annul, reverse, or essentially change the nature or office of.
- To leave unmade, unformed, uncreated, or unfashioned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To destroy the form and qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, euphemistic To
destroy ; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb deprive of certain characteristics
Etymologies
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Examples
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It isn't well to make up our minds fully until we have heard all sides, lest we have them to unmake, which is always more or less painful.
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I can't imagine the work to make, and then "unmake," that project, but I bet it brought out some interesting juxtapositions.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Editorial Anonymous 2009
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"None of us knew the book in question had a hidden spell in it, a spell that could 'unmake' Carlotta.
Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Under #2 and under the ICC case, the question is whether the President can unmake a treaty he (or his predecessor) have already made prior to rejection by the Senate.
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With logic like that, we should be able to expect Iran to unmake its nuclear weapons program.
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The fiscal crisis is of Our making, and We can unmake it without total destruction. lgl
No Entitlements Crisis?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Sometimes those scraps from the alley became dangerous prototypes and I ended up with broken limbs, but I had teachers who encouraged me to unmake, remake, invent, and dream big dreams.
Mickey McManus: Innovate: Education -- The Next Literacy Mickey McManus 2011
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Under #2 and under the ICC case, the question is whether the President can unmake a treaty he (or his predecessor) have already made prior to rejection by the Senate.
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Sometimes those scraps from the alley became dangerous prototypes and I ended up with broken limbs, but I had teachers who encouraged me to unmake, remake, invent, and dream big dreams.
Mickey McManus: Innovate: Education -- The Next Literacy Mickey McManus 2011
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His lips press and his arms enfold not her so much as the ideal of her, and unless she unmake herself, he cannot unlove her.
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