unmake
verb (used with object)
to cause to be as if never made; reduce to the original elements or condition; undo; destroy.
unmaker
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a word derived from
unmake.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps almost of the philosopher, the historian, the sociologist: the clearer away of convenient error, the unmaker and remaker of consciences.
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Vernon Lee
And now, on this terrible night of November 20th, this unmaker of kings finds himself the solitary deputy ready to risk his life to save the man whose crown he had destroyed.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway
Lord of this land and patron of Holy Thorn; a maker and unmaker of abbots to whom now I must bow my knees.
From The Forest Lovers by Maurice Henry Hewlett
So many times did those confounded monarchs affront him face upwards on the serene baize that he began to suspect Vernon of being a sort of gamester Warwick, a maker and unmaker of kings.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
"Ah," exclaimed Eleanor, "here comes the hero of the hour, the maker and unmaker of Ministries."
From Half a Hero A Novel by Anthony Hope
