unbombast

present singular third person unbombasts · participle present unbombasting · participle past unbombasted · past unbombasted

1. raretransitiveTo take down or discredit (bombastic speech or writing).

   Earlier in the year he had written to Backhouse, 'will it not then be singularly hard if we cannot find time to unbombast the impudence of the matchless Jonathan?'

   Quoted in: 1999, Dawn Currie, Girl Talk: Adolescent Magazines and Their Readers (page 11)

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   We wish Mr. Rafinesque to understand, that when any pseudo scientific publication is published here, calculated to mislead at home, and to discredit the country abroad, we shall proceed to unbombast it as soon as our leisure permits.

   1969, The Monthly American Journal of Geology and Natural Science, page 515