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Unmake (verb) means to take something apart, or destroy it, so it is no longer what it was.

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To take something apart, or destroy it, so it is no longer what it was.

"Let go the lure The striving to unmake" — Nathalia Crane, Swear By the Night and Other Poems (1936)

"She was confused. Now that he had worked himself into a snit he'd be angry if she unmade the bed and did what he wanted. If she didn't make it properly, he'd be resentful. She stripped the bed. She'd change the linens." — Florida Ann Town, On the Rim (2013)

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