uncreate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌʌnkɹiˈeɪt/
uncreate (uncreates, present participle uncreating; past and past participle uncreated)
- (transitive) To kill; to destroy; to deprive of existence; to annihilate.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- 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.
- 1930, G. K. Chesterton, The Resurrection of Rome
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