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UNMAKE (unmade)

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Irregular inflected form: unmade  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does unmake mean? 

UNMAKE (verb)
  The verb UNMAKE has 1 sense:

1. deprive of certain characteristicsplay

  Familiarity information: UNMAKE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNMAKE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they unmake  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it unmakes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: unmaked  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: unmaked  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: unmaking  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Deprive of certain characteristics

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

undo; unmake

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "unmake"):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

make (create or design, often in a certain way)


 Context examples 


It was a close and stifling little shop; full of all sorts of clothing, made and unmade, including one window full of beaver-hats and bonnets.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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