Meanings
- not comparableundone or apart; in a state of disarray
Nevertheless, here it all was, cast, pressed and spun, with plastic handles, wooden handles or metal handles, warranted by optimistic manufacturers never to get too hot, and never to come unput.
1947, Light Metals and Metal Industry, volume 10, page 2632 more examples
I really don't know how it is that my clothes always manage to come unput. Other girls look as smart and neat as a new pin all the time; my dresses and overalls get on one side immediately; all my buttons come undone […]
1932, Dikken Zwilgmeyer, The Little Northerners, page 196I saw the solid world come unput at our feet. I didn't see the logic: how you would leave behind friends, family, a fixed address, even your books, until one tactful line in the Hatched-Matched-and-Despatched: Died Suddenly.
2001, Philip Gross, Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998, page 65
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