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Unlive

Unlive \Un*live"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + live.] To ??ve in a contrary manner, as a life; to live in a manner contrary to. [R.]
--Glanvill.

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unlive

Etymology 1 vb. (context transitive English) To bereave or deprive of life; make unalive. Etymology 2

vb. (context transitive English) To live (a period of time) in reverse, so that it ceases to have happened.

WordNet
unlive

v. live so as to annul some previous behavior; "You can never live this down!" [syn: live down]

Usage examples of "unlive".

No, Bedlam, I think these are his unliving servants, as horrible in their own way as those things moving south.

Stories about the middle years also hinge on the discovery of blight in a mislived or unlived life, of love gone wrong, in any number of ways, of help refused when it might save a life, of pain passed on.

Band of Four were wrestling with the Melted, that beast of an armaragor hacking at unliving limbs like a woodcutter, and the procurer doing his usual dance of leaps, twirls, and magpie grabs at anything that glowed or looked valuable.

Cleggett, the Brooklynite-this person whom young reporters conceived of as the staid, dry prophet of the dusty Fact--was secretly a mighty reservoir of unwritten, unacted, unlived, unspoken romance.

It was a little rental house, one story and no basement, in this country where most houses had basements or root cellars, and it was faded to a dim green with a gray shingled roof and even though they knew she was inside it looked empty and unlived in.

Relatively unfettered by time or space, my mind has roamed the Galaxy in past and future to gather pieces of the truth of the great war of life against unliving death.

The unliving metal killers had had to force a landing, to neutralize the defensive field generators, before the bombardment could begin in earnest.

And the berserker, their unliving foe, faced its own analogue of death and worse-than-death.

If a berserker force was going to descend on Waterfall, the chance of four defenseless humans avoiding discovery by the unliving killers would be nil.

Again grains of sand beneath the two bodies, living and unliving, jumped from the bottom.

But perhaps one survived, or at least its unliving brain survived when the rest of its machinery was crippled or destroyed.

Whole planets had been sterilized, whole solar systems laid waste by the unliving enemy.

I think my coupling of a Yuuzhan Vong drive with a ship designed for an unliving drive may have been imperfect and contributed to the deterioration.

Quickly Tomas lashed out at the heart of the unliving creature, a near-mortal wound which caused it to stagger back.

Persian rugs, the escritoire with its onyx penholders, a case of silvery duelling pistols and other guns, an icon with a white unliving face.