Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove the roof or covering of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strip off the roof or roofs of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To strip off the roof or covering of, as a house.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove a
roof from, e.g. a building.
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When spears and boomerangs thrown against the walls in derision failed to bring the whites out, the Aborigines stormed the hut and tried to unroof it.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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When spears and boomerangs thrown against the walls in derision failed to bring the whites out, the Aborigines stormed the hut and tried to unroof it.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Shann scrambled ashore, the wolverines after him, sniffling along at his heels while he overturned likely looking rocks to unroof some odd underwater dwellings.
Storm Over Warlock Andre Norton 1958
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Those who were decoyed into these staterooms endured them with disgust while the boat was at anchor; but when the paddle-wheels began to revolve, and dismal din of clang and bang and whirr came down about their ears, and threatened to unroof the fortress of the brain, why, then they fled madly, precipitately, leaving their clothes mostly behind them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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As it approached Broad Run, about a mile west of Marshallton, it descended sufficiently long to unroof and almost destroy the barns and out-buildings of two properties, owned respectively by Richard Baily and Joseph Marshall, of West Bradford township.
A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa. Richard Darlington
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So when the Siamese need rain, they set out their idols in the blazing sun; but if they want dry weather, they unroof the temples and let the rain pour down on the idols.
Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather. § 2. The Magical Control of Rain 1922
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So when the Siamese need rain, they set out their idols in the blazing sun; but if they want dry weather, they unroof the temples and let the rain pour down on the idols.
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We could have cities of wood to be wiped out by conflagrations; we could build houses of mud and sticks for the gales to unroof like a Hottentot village.
The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922
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