unmake

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While Coel drew significantly on her own experiences at a public school, she was also reading “The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons” by Colin Dayan.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2020

Uneducate our men, unplough our land, Bid heathen temples rise on every hand; Unmake our progress and revoke our laws, Or stuff them full of all their banished flaws.

From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 5, 1892 by Various

Unmake, un-māk′, v.t. to destroy the make or form and qualities of.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Dread Power, but dear! if God thou be, Unmake me quite, or give thyself to me!

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

May you never Regret those hours which make the mind, if they Unmake the body; for the sooner we Are fit to be all mind, the better.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright