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Unbuild

Unbuild \Un*build\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + build.] To demolish; to raze. ``To unbuild the city.''
--Shak.

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unbuild

vb. (context transitive English) To dismantle or deconstruct (something previously built).

Usage examples of "unbuild".

I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

The symmetry of their construction, and the continued repetition of the same form, are never better shown than when the men, climbing up the sides of a stack against which they look small, unbuild the mighty heap, the bags falling on to a continuous band which carries them jauntily out of the store.

And when he is no more I shall have time to unbuild the structure he has raised with lies for stones and my name coupled with some evil deed cut in every stone.

Sometimes a generation built wrongly, and the next generation had to unbuild, and the next generation had to build again.

How symmetrically, how beautifully, how inevitably, the little particles pile up the cone, which is ever building and unbuilding itself, always aiming at the stability which is found only at a certain fixed angle!

The holojector showed a jagged rainbow mountain range, slowly building and unbuilding in 3-D.

They were like two small boys building a model airplane, only here they were unbuilding it.

Sensitive Spirits of the Gods, by destroying and unbuilding each others Body by violent deaths, before it be the Gods pleasure to dissolve that Body, and so to remove the Soul to a new Mansion?

For even as Orem watched the city was unbuilding itself, as if time had come undone and it was a century, two centuries in the past.

It was a noble illusion, doomed to failure, the versatile genius of language cried out against the monotony of their Utopia, and the crowds who were to people the unbuilded city of their dreams went straying after the feathered chiefs of the rebels, who, when the fulness of time was come, themselves received apotheosis and the honours of a new motley pantheon.

Tape-fed flux is too much like what Giraud did in the War, which I don't even like to contemplate—building minds and unbuilding them.