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Definitions for UNMAKE
ʌnˈmeɪkun·make

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unmake, undoverb

    deprive of certain characteristics

Wiktionary

  1. unmakeverb

    To destroy; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Unmakeverb

    To deprive of former qualities before possessed. To deprive of form or being.

    They’ve made themselves, and their fitness now
    Does unmake you. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    God does not make or unmake things, to try experiments. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

    Empire! thou poor and despicable thing,
    When such as these make, or unmake a king. Dryden.

    Bring this guide of the light within to the trial. God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man. John Locke.

ChatGPT

  1. unmake

    To unmake means to reverse, undo, dismantle, or destroy something that has been created, constructed, or established, essentially bringing it back to its original state or condition.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unmakeverb

    to destroy the form and qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unmake

    un-māk′, v.t. to destroy the make or form and qualities of.—adjs. Unmade′, not made: reduced to its original form; Unmā′kable, that cannot be made.—n. Unmā′king, act of destroying.—Unmade up, not worked up into form.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of UNMAKE in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of UNMAKE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of UNMAKE in a Sentence

  1. Marguerite Duras:

    She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

  2. William Henry Harrison:

    The broad foundation upon which our Constitution rests being the people—a breath of theirs having made, as a breath can unmake, change, or modify it—it can be assigned to none of the great divisions of government but to that of democracy.

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