uncreate

verb — 2 senses

uncreate

verb

/ˌʌnkɹiˈeɪt/

Etymology From un- + create.

1

To kill; to destroy; to deprive of existence; to annihilate.

  • Who can uncreate thee, thou shalt know.1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
2

To undo the act of creating.

  • 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:
Synonyms
unmake, ungenerate

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