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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unmake.

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Examples

  • It is an increasingly bloody carnival, a tale of modern metamorphosis to set beside Ovid's ancient ones, and a book about the ways love remakes and unmakes people, one in which the politics of the heart exist in competition and confusion with politics as usual.

    Authors and others 2010

  • And there's a lot of really funny comedy that comes from the decisions that she makes and unmakes and makes again...

    Amy Poehler on the Emmys and the Evolution of Parks and Recreation’s Lovable Leader 2011

  • It is an increasingly bloody carnival, a tale of modern metamorphosis to set beside Ovid's ancient ones, and a book about the ways love remakes and unmakes people, one in which the politics of the heart exist in competition and confusion with politics as usual.

    A Different Stripe: 2009

  • It is an increasingly bloody carnival, a tale of modern metamorphosis to set beside Ovid's ancient ones, and a book about the ways love remakes and unmakes people, one in which the politics of the heart exist in competition and confusion with politics as usual.

    A letter from the editor on Sylvia Townsend Warner 2009

  • It is an increasingly bloody carnival, a tale of modern metamorphosis to set beside Ovid's ancient ones, and a book about the ways love remakes and unmakes people, one in which the politics of the heart exist in competition and confusion with politics as usual.

    From the editor 2009

  • Then he smashes their lives like sand-castles, and his wonderful people fall apart while magic unmakes them, rewriting the rules of their world to reveal hidden truths about love, family, self-regard, self-loathing, and other emotionally charged subjects.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • I rejoice in every movement of women to better the conditions of society, not because I think they can do the thing they start to do, but because by trial and failure they will learn their need of the weapon which in hand makes or unmakes those conditions.

    Susan B - Social Pressure and Me Looking-for-Mabel 2008

  • I rejoice in every movement of women to better the conditions of society, not because I think they can do the thing they start to do, but because by trial and failure they will learn their need of the weapon which in hand makes or unmakes those conditions.

    Archive 2008-07-01 DJ Zoe Trop 2008

  • In its decay and futility it still makes our laws, and makes them and unmakes them at a greater rate than ever it did before.

    Can It Be Mended? Part One 2007

  • He knows more about what makes, and unmakes, a marriage than a lot of marrieds.

    A celibate expert on marriage Mike L 2006

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