unadapt
verbEtymology From un- + adapt.
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Ambitransitive To undo the process of adaptation; to revert or restore to an original form.
- It seems clear that instead of simply adapting Das Nibelungenlied, Lang and von Harbou were seeking to unadapt it from Wagner by treating the rhetorical and presentational strategies of the Ring operas as encrustations […]2015, Joe McElhaney, A Companion to Fritz Lang, page 189:
- Cultivating it on a regular basis improves our attitude towards writing and makes us more resilient. But in order to make it work we have to 'unadapt' to the habituation that familiarity can bring, […]2017, Michael Alvear, The Bulletproof Author: