Definitions for unmake

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unmake un·make

Spelling: [uhn-meyk]

IPA: /ʌnˈmeɪk/

Unmake is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in unmake (aekmnu).

Definitions for unmake

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to be as if never made; reduce to the original elements or condition; undo; destroy.
2. to depose from office or authority; demote in rank.
3. to change the essential point of (a book, play, etc.).
4. to alter the opinion of (one's mind).
5. to change or alter the character of.

Origin of unmake

First recorded in 1350-1400, unmake is from the Middle English word unmaken. See un-², make¹

Examples for unmake

It is not straps that make the gentleman, or highlows that unmake him, be they ever so thick.

The economic meltdown that made him now threatens to unmake him.

You are going to be able to make and unmake men as you choose.

The restoration of the Bourbons, the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848, make and unmake romantics.

The American, once having made them citizens, cannot unmake them.

If we build up this throne, he who sits on it is our viceroy; we have made, and can unmake him.'

We will go out against the world and break it and unmake it.

We cannot, if we would, unmake the history of the last ten years.

But we cannot unmake ourselves or change our habits in a moment.

They made Boulanger to save it; now they are trying to unmake Boulanger to save it.