unpavev.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpeɪv/, U.S. /ˌənˈpeɪv/ΚΠ
1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) iv. iii. f. 115v To break the doores & windows, to vnpaue the stones, to paint and black the walles.
1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands xi. 705 Telling him that if he did but vnpaue a stone or two, he should yet see his fathers bloud.
2. transitive. To remove the paving from (a street, etc.).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > damage deliberately or vandalize > gut or remove things from a building, etc.
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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Dimattonare, to vnpaue, to vnbrick.
1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood v. i. 44 During that yeare, the Primatiall Church..had the Altars vnpaued..and the Belles vn-hung.
1686 London Gaz. No. 2147/2 They have unpaved the Streets.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Water-spout Its [sc. the whirlwind's] general effects on houses were..forcing up the floors, and unpaving the rooms.
1832 W. Jones Biogr. Sketches Reform Ministers 704 They began to unpave the streets, and overturned waggons in the middle of the narrowest parts.
1882 Bristol Mercury 23 Sept. 8/5 They were..commencing on the drainage and unpaving the road.
1959 B. Bucknall tr. E.-E. Viollet-le-Duc Disc. Archit. II. xviii. 330 A street is cut, and is paved; people pass along it and suppose it finished; but no, they unpave it to make a drain.
2001 D. Dempsey Ruin & Recovery 295 The state may spend many more billions..to unpave cement channels and replenish wetlands starved of water.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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