unbuild

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verb (used with object), un·built, un·build·ing.

to demolish (something built); raze.

Origin of unbuild

First recorded in 1600–10; un-² + build

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Related Words for unbuild

obliterate, topple, demolish, overthrow, wreck, erase, smash, destroy, extinguish, bulldoze, scatter, dynamite, mar, reverse, subvert, ruin, shatter, abolish, quash, spoil

Examples from the Web for unbuild

Historical Examples of unbuild

One requires no assistance to enable one to unbuild, deface, destroy.
Nancy
Rhoda Broughton
Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,Will arise and unbuild it again.
Some Christian Convictions
Henry Sloane Coffin
You may think you know a house by living in it, but you do not; you need to unbuild it to get more than a passing acquaintance.
Old Plymouth Trails
Winthrop Packard
Sometimes a generation built wrongly, and the next generation had to unbuild, and the next generation had to build again.
Liberalism and the Social Problem
Winston Spencer Churchill
And it would be a mighty smart firm that could unbuild this place inside a fortnight.
Hugo
Arnold Bennett