unmaking
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6.1
- noun
- /ʌnˈmeɪkɪŋ/
:
deshacer
- The unmaking of the agreement left both parties feeling uncertain about the future.
- Making and Unmaking
I read the Unmaking of June Pharaoh.
- I read the Unmaking of June Pharaoh.
- It's the in your subtitle for it was the the unmaking, the unmaking of Elvis Presley.
- So if you like reading about small towns, family, time travel, that is the unmaking of June Pharaoh.
Examples
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The unmaking of existence is what you might consider a great tedium breaker.
Fiction book (1999) -
The unmaking of the old laws allowed for new reforms to be implemented.
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Welcome to another edition of what I'm going to start calling The Unmaking of America.
Blog text (18) -
So if you like reading about small towns, family, time travel, that is the unmaking of June Pharaoh.
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But part of what poems that approach death through experiences of listening show us is that nothing like this extensive process of self-unmaking is necessary.
Academic text (2016) -
The unmaking of the sonnet as Frost and Wilbur conceived it escalates here.
Academic text (2000) -
Dawn Chatty, Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State (London: Hurst, 2018).
Academic text (2018) -
In 1983, Derek Freeman published Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of a Myth.
Academic text (1993) -
At the Council table, they began to talk of precedents for the unmaking of treaties, of gathering armies if need be, of raiding into Elflands to take what was needed.
Fiction book (1992) -
The artist's latest work explores the unmaking of traditional narratives in literature.
Synonyms
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4.4
The act of taking a machine or system apart
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4.2
An action that reverses the effect of a previous action
Breaking down old systems or institutions on purpose
Antonyms
How Reversed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unmaking breaks into the prefix un- meaning 'reverse' and the verb make meaning 'to create'. So unmaking is the act of taking something apart or undoing what was made, like the word 'undo'.