unmake
verb (used with object)
to cause to be as if never made; reduce to the original elements or condition; undo; destroy.
is unmaking
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present progressiveof unmake (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But I remember one sentence very well—Life—isn't it Life?—is 'an action which is making itself, across an action of the same kind which is unmaking itself.'
From Helena by Mrs. Humphry Ward
In vital activity we see, then, that which subsists of the direct movement in the inverted movement, a reality which is making itself in a reality which is unmaking itself.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
