unparadise

English

Etymology

un- +‎ paradise

Verb

unparadise (third-person singular simple present unparadises, present participle unparadising, simple past and past participle unparadised)

1. (transitive) To deprive of happiness like that of paradise; to make unhappy.
   • 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I:

     Could you, so rich in rapture, fear an end,
     That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy,
     And quite unparadise the realms of light.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unparadise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)