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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNMA'KE, v.t.
1. To destroy the form and qualities which constitute a thing what it is.
God does not make or unmake things to try experiments.
2. To deprive of qualities before possessed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: deprive of certain characteristics [syn: unmake, undo] [ant: do, make]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (unmade; -making) Date: 15th century 1. to cause to disappear ; destroy 2. to deprive of rank or office ; depose 3. to deprive of essential characteristics ; change the nature of

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (past and past part. unmade) undo the making of; destroy, depose, annul.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unmake Un*make", v. t. [1st pref. un- + make.] To destroy the form and qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate. God does not make or unmake things to try experiments. --T. Burnet.

Moby Thesaurus

atomize, break to pieces, cleave, decimate, demolish, dethrone, disassemble, discrown, disenthrone, disintegrate, dismantle, displace, fragment, make mincemeat of, pick to pieces, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, raze, reduce to rubble, rend, ruin, shatter, smash, split, sunder, take apart, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, total, unbuild, uncrown, undo, wrack, wrack up, wreck