uncultivate

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ cultivate.

Verb

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uncultivate (third-person singular simple present uncultivates, present participle uncultivating, simple past and past participle uncultivated)

  1. (transitive, rare) To undo the cultivation of; to make uncultivated.
    • 1831, John Stuart Mill, The Spirit of the Age:
      May his abortive effort to uncivilize human nature, to uncultivate the mind of man, and turn it into a desolate waste, be the last!
    • 2019, Andy Brennan, Uncultivated, page 67:
      To uncultivate is to encourage the transformation from one state to another, just like cultivation, except that it seeks its opposite horizon. It seeks to peel back the layers of cultivation []