unshapev.
transitive. To deform; to destroy. Also figurative.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)]
to bring to noughteOE
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to bring to naughtOE
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to wend downa1400
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to shend ofc1540
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to make away1566
discreate1570
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destructify1841
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to knock out1944
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a1400 New Test. (Paues) App. 219 Vnschapynge þer body wiþ newe manere of degyse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iv. 19 This deede vnshapes me quite. View more context for this quotation
1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 376/2 The sandy columns of the Great Desert, which the caprices of the wind build up and scatter, shape and unshape in a moment.
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