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单词 unwork
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unworkn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈwork.
(un- prefix1 6.)
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > unemployment
disemployment1651
unwork1854
worklessness1881
unemploy1887
unemployment1888
out-of-workness1903
joblessness1911
1854 J. G. Whittier Yankee Gypsies in Prose Wks. (1889) I. 343 The comfortable philosophy..is the real life of this city of unwork.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

unworkv.

Etymology: un- prefix2 1a, 1c Compare Old English unwyrcan to undo; also Old High German intwurchen, -wirken, Middle High German entwürken, -wirken to destroy.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈwork.
rare.
1. transitive. To undo or detach (from something).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)]
undoc1275
unwork1548
ungluea1617
unhinge1655
disattach1658
disengage1662
untacka1677
unglutinate1683
detach1686
unshackle1694
unship1793
unhitch1876
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. viij But his workyng vnwrought king Richard from his croune.
2. To spoil, mar, or destroy. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)]
to bring to noughteOE
forspillc893
fordilghec900
to bring to naughtOE
astryea1200
stroyc1200
forferec1275
misdoa1325
destroyc1330
naught1340
dingc1380
beshenda1400
devoida1400
unshapea1400
to wend downa1400
brittenc1400
unloukc1400
perishc1426
defeat1435
unmake1439
lithc1450
spend1481
kill1530
to shend ofc1540
quade1565
to make away1566
discreate1570
wrake1570
wracka1586
unwork1587
gaster1609
defease1621
unbe1624
uncreate1633
destructa1638
naufragate1648
stifle1725
stramash1788
disannul1794
destructify1841
locust1868
to knock out1944
dick1972
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvii. 308 The punishments bewray..that wee chastise in vs, not that which God hath made or wrought in vs, but that which wee our selues haue vndone or vnwrought.
3. To release from an intertwined condition.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > loosen, unfasten, or untie [verb (transitive)] > untwist, unravel, etc.
untwinec1407
unlacea1450
untwindc1460
untwist1538
unweave1542
distwine1562
feaze1568
unpleat1572
unspin1587
unplat1589
unwreathe1591
unreave1593
unravel1603
ravel1607
unwrithe1611
uncluea1616
unwork1623
unperplex1660
untwirla1703
unlay1726
disentwine1814
unbraid1828
unmesha1849
disintertwine1861
unplait1865
tiffle out1880
unleeze1889
1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) v. sig. M3 If they light in..a dead hedge, your best way is softly to vnworke the hedge till you come to them.
4. To undo by contrary action.
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the world > action or operation > doing > do [verb (transitive)] > reverse the doing of
undo1426
reverse1612
unwork1726
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 177 The woof unwrought the Suitor-train surprize.
1850 E. B. Browning Sonnets from Portuguese xiv, in Poems (new ed.) II. 451 These things..may Be changed, or change for thee,—and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.
1909 W. Ogilvie Whaup o' the Rede vii. vii Thy lady mother..Unwrought the wrong of Wat Harden's hate With her love.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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