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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

undestroy en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + destroy.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To undo the destruction of; to restore or recreate.
    • People could then UNDESTROY files which they had deleted by mistake. 1975, Newsletter, volumes 5-8, University of Michigan Computing Center, page 4:
    • Do you think we should be getting into how to undestroy it or put it back to normal? 1993, Elwood Babbitt, Perfect Health: Accept No Substitutes:
    • But taken together and contextualized within the film's pragmatic designs, they become an invitation to undestroy everything by learning to read the already written future. 2018, Jesse Matz, Modernist Time Ecology, page 213:

Forms

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undestroying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
undestroys Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
undestroyed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
undestroyed Tense=Past lexicographic