unprepare
verbEtymology From un- + prepare.
1
To undo the preparation of.
- The planters generally are doing very little to prepare the apprentices for freedom, but some are doing very much to unprepare them. They are driving the people from them by their conduct.1838, James A. Thome, Joseph Horace Kimball, Emancipation in the West Indies, page 222:
- After we write out the audio data, we need to unprepare the header and close the device. But we can't do that until the device completes playback […]1997, Anthony Potts, Chris D. Coppola, Scott Jarol, Visual Basic 5 Web and Multimedia Adventure Set, page 650: