unform

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ form.

Verb

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unform (third-person singular simple present unforms, present participle unforming, simple past and past participle unformed)

  1. To destroy the form of; to decompose, or resolve into parts; to unmake.
    • 1826, John Mason Good, “Lecture VII. On Geology. (The Subject Continued.)”, in The Book of Nature. [], volumes I (Series I. Nature of the Material World; [].), London: [] [A[ndrew] & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, [], →OCLC, page 154:
      Such are a few of the numerous causes that contribute to the disunion of concrete bodies, and powerfully co-operate with that wonderful fluid which alternately forms and unforms; which creates , decomposes , and regenerates all nature.

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