uninvent
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]uninvent (third-person singular simple present uninvents, present participle uninventing, simple past and past participle uninvented)
- (transitive) To undo the invention of; to unmake.
- 2009 October 11, Roz Chast, Tucker Nichols, Jillian Tamaki, Joseph Hart, Karen Barbour, Bella Foster, Jason Polan And Seth, “My Bake Sale Memory”, in New York Times[1]:
- It’s easier to ban bake sales than to get rid of half the cars in the city, or uninvent video games, or design broccoli that tastes like homemade chocolate chip cookies.