unroof
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of unroof
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With much pretentious wagging of shapely heads, and much mysterious innuendo, they spoke lightly of the departed one, and failed not to mentally unroof the Silver Bungalow.
From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Richard Savage
If we, as haply God or Devil can, could unroof the houses of men's souls, if their visible works were of their hearts rather than their brains, we should know strange things.
From Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 by William Patten
Shann scrambled ashore, the wolverines after him, sniffling along at his heels while he overturned likely looking rocks to unroof some odd underwater dwellings.
From Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton
To unroof the house, a method practised by landlords in Wales to eject a bad tenant.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
"First he breaks to pieces the bottom of my house, and then he threatens to unroof it."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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