undestroy

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verb

To undo the destruction of; to restore or recreate.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbundestroy (third-person singular simple present undestroys, present participle undestroying, simple past and past participle undestroyed)

present singular third person undestroys · participle present undestroying · participle past undestroyed · past undestroyed

  1. transitiveTo 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
    2 more examples

    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

Origin

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Chicago

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