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单词 unmaking
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unmake

verb

un·​make ˌən-ˈmāk How to pronounce unmake (audio)
unmade ˌən-ˈmād How to pronounce unmake (audio) ; unmaking

transitive verb

1
: to cause to disappear : destroy
2
: to deprive of rank or office : depose
3
: to deprive of essential characteristics : change the nature of

Synonyms

  • defrock
  • depose
  • deprive
  • dethrone
  • displace
  • oust
  • uncrown
  • unseat
  • unthrone
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Example Sentences

a movie studio chief who likes to boast that he can unmake any star in Hollywood if he wishes
Recent Examples on the Web In real life, most choices are impossible to unmake. Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022 The devices, many of them suspect, also serve to sap the hardiness of a self that could resist and unmake all these other indignities. Choire Sicha, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2021 The Senate has the power to make and unmake such procedures; the Democratic Party could have done away with the filibuster in 2009 and simply chose not to. Win Mccormack, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021 The devices, many of them suspect, also serve to sap the hardiness of a self that could resist and unmake all these other indignities. Choire Sicha, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2021 The Senate has the power to make and unmake such procedures; the Democratic Party could have done away with the filibuster in 2009 and simply chose not to. Win Mccormack, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021 The devices, many of them suspect, also serve to sap the hardiness of a self that could resist and unmake all these other indignities. Choire Sicha, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2021 The Senate has the power to make and unmake such procedures; the Democratic Party could have done away with the filibuster in 2009 and simply chose not to. Win Mccormack, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021 The Senate has the power to make and unmake such procedures; the Democratic Party could have done away with the filibuster in 2009 and simply chose not to. Win Mccormack, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

unmaking 1 of 2

noun

as in overthrow

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • overthrow
  • removal
  • impeachment
  • expulsion
  • unseating
  • dismissal
  • ouster
  • deposition
  • degradation
  • abasement
  • suspension
  • dethronement
  • discharge
  • reduction
  • demotion
  • comedown
  • downfall
  • disrating
  • downgrade
  • fall

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • creation
  • rise
  • advancement
  • promotion
  • elevation
  • ascent
  • upgrading
  • preference
  • preferment
  • aggrandizement
  • upgrade
  • glorification
  • exaltation
  • magnification
  • ennoblement
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unmaking

2 of 2

verb

present participle of unmake
as in deposing
to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne) a movie studio chief who likes to boast that he can unmake any star in Hollywood if he wishes

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • deposing
  • toppling
  • sacking
  • depriving
  • dismissing
  • unseating
  • dethroning
  • displacing
  • banishing
  • ousting
  • removing
  • subverting
  • firing
  • defrocking
  • usurping
  • overthrowing
  • uncrowning
  • unthroning
  • supplanting
  • ejecting
  • canning
  • extruding
  • expelling
  • retiring
  • routing
  • mustering out
  • chasing
  • cashiering
  • discharging
  • casting out
  • running off
  • bouncing
  • throwing out
  • booting (out)
  • drumming (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • crowning
  • enthroning
  • initiating
  • installing
  • inaugurating
  • investing
  • appointing
  • inducting
  • electing
  • throning
  • baptizing
  • instating
  • designating
  • baptising
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