Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of destroying; destruction; undoing; also, that which unmakes.
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- verb Present participle of
unmake . - noun The act by which something is unmade.
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Examples
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Can human perversity any farther go, in unmaking the process of restoration which God has made?
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Le Guin — When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
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Le Guin — When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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While I want to commend the panelists and the Museum for the truly splendid, diverse, and masterful videos selected -- an inspiring bunch -- their selections also prove to counter-productively re-entrench the very hi/low distinctions that the show seemed to be interested in unmaking.
Alexandra Juhasz: Guggenheim Got the Highs & Missed Wonderfully Defintive YouTube Lows Alexandra Juhasz 2010
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While I want to commend the panelists and the Museum for the truly splendid, diverse, and masterful videos selected -- an inspiring bunch -- their selections also prove to counter-productively re-entrench the very hi/low distinctions that the show seemed to be interested in unmaking.
Alexandra Juhasz: Guggenheim Got the Highs & Missed Wonderfully Defintive YouTube Lows Alexandra Juhasz 2010
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While I want to commend the panelists and the Museum for the truly splendid, diverse, and masterful videos selected -- an inspiring bunch -- their selections also prove to counter-productively re-entrench the very hi/low distinctions that the show seemed to be interested in unmaking.
Alexandra Juhasz: Guggenheim Got the Highs & Missed Wonderfully Defintive YouTube Lows Alexandra Juhasz 2010
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It is the big money of professional golf that Mr. Adelson ultimately indicts for the "unmaking" of Michelle -- or, rather, it is her parent's thirst for it that he assails.
In Life and Golf, Traps Abound By Gerald Eskenazi 2009
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Extensive extras on the dual-disc DVD release include an "unmaking of" featurette, interviews and "deconstruction", alongside three short films from Kötting who made this feature in French after funding failed in the UK.
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010
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I would concludesome dystopian or descentto madness or unmaking.
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The ability to drag back career-unmaking words was staggeringly important.
Makin’ copies. 2009
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