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unˈroof, v.
(un-2 4.)
1598Florio, Disculminare,..to vnroofe, or vntile a house. 1607Shakes. Cor. i. i. 222 Sdeath, The rabble should haue first vnroof't the City Ere so preuayl'd with me. 1779Hervey Nav. Hist. II. 457 Three hundred houses were unroofed by it. 1844Kinglake Eothen viii, They actually unroofed a great part of the building. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. viii. II. 288 Houses were unroofed, and the timbers were thrown into the fosse.
transf.1804Collins Scripscrap 59 Time had unroof'd all the thatch from his pate. 1862J. Grant Capt. of Guard xii, Servers, pages, and pantrymen..unroofed the huge pasties of pigeons and venison.
Hence unˈroofed ppl. a.1, stripped of the roof, made roofless; unˈroofing vbl. n.
a1550Leland Itin. (1768) II. 68 At the which tyme al the Chirch..lay to wast, and was *onrofid. 1779Phil. Trans. LXX. 68 The sight of this town, unroofed, half buried under black scoriæ and ashes. 1814Scott Wav. lxiii, Unroofed cottages, trees felled for palisades, and bridges destroyed. 1876Bryant Flood of Years 79 Temples stand Unroofed, forsaken by the worshippers.
1831James Phil. Augustus I. xv, The *unroofing of the hovels. |