unmake
verb (used with object)
to cause to be as if never made; reduce to the original elements or condition; undo; destroy.
unmakes
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present tense formof unmake (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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When Morpheus unmakes the Corinthian, he denounces the aggrieved entitlement of the Collectors telling them, "Until now, you have sustained fantasies in which you are the victims, comforting daydreams in which you are always right."
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
Again, she poses an idea through possibility: “Maybe the value of art, to artists and everyone else, is that it upends other value systems. Art unmakes the world made by art.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
That which makes us also unmakes us, and the process of living seems inextricably bound to the process of dying.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
“Language makes and unmakes reality,” says Sally Elliott, the aspiring writer character who serves as Coover's stand-in.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2014
The world unmakes stuff faster than people can make it.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
