uncreate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌʌnkɹiˈeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]uncreate (third-person singular simple present uncreates, present participle uncreating, simple past and past participle uncreated)
- (transitive) To kill; to destroy; to deprive of existence; to annihilate.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Who can uncreate thee, thou shalt know.
- (transitive) To undo the act of creating.
- 1930, G. K. Chesterton, The Resurrection of Rome:
- They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation.