undestroy

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ destroy.

Verb

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undestroy (third-person singular simple present undestroys, present participle undestroying, simple past and past participle undestroyed)

  1. (transitive) To undo the destruction of; to restore or recreate.
    • 1975, Newsletter, volumes 5-8, University of Michigan Computing Center, page 4:
      People could then UNDESTROY files which they had deleted by mistake.
    • 1993, Elwood Babbitt, Perfect Health: Accept No Substitutes:
      Do you think we should be getting into how to undestroy it or put it back to normal?
    • 2018, Jesse Matz, Modernist Time Ecology, page 213:
      But taken together and contextualized within the film's pragmatic designs, they become an invitation to undestroy everything by learning to read the already written future.