unwallv.
transitive. To deprive of, to free from, a wall or walls; to demolish (a wall).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break down, demolish, or ruin
spillc950
fellOE
to cast downc1230
destroy1297
to turn up?c1335
to throw down1340
to ding downc1380
to break downa1382
subverta1382
underturn1382
to take downc1384
falla1400
to make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth)a1400
voida1400
brittenc1400
to burst downc1440
to pull downc1450
pluck1481
tumble1487
wreck1510
defacea1513
confound1523
raze1523
arase1530
to beat downc1540
ruinate1548
demolish1560
plane1562
to shovel down1563
race?1567
ruin1585
rape1597
unwall1598
to bluster down16..
raise1603
level1614
debolish1615
unbuilda1616
to make smooth work of1616
slight1640
to knock down1776
squabash1822
collapse1883
to turn over1897
mash1924
rubble1945
to take apart1978
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Smurare, to vnwall, to raze..any walles.
1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. Christ shall unwall (or cast down the wals) of all the children of Seth.
1656 W. Davenant Siege of Rhodes ii. 11 It were more honour, Sultan, to assail A publick Strength..Then to unwall this private Tenement.
1686 J. S. Hist. Monastical Convent. 176 The Masons unwalled and unclosed the Conclave.
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