unrestore

present singular third person unrestores · participle present unrestoring · participle past unrestored · past unrestored

1. To undo work that was done to restore something.

   I had to take it to the shop and have them unrestore it. It had been kept too well.

   2013, John Brandon, A Million Heavens, →ISBN

   3 more examples

   The film manufacturer enlarged the few good areas on the negatives and replaced the roll of film, but can not unrestore the car for photos.

   1962, The Antique Automobile - Volumes 26-27, page 185

   How could one "only true end-time apostle" contradict another "only true end-time apostle"? If one had restored the truth, how could another "unrestore" that same truth?

   2001, J. Michael Feazell, The Liberation of the Worldwide Church of God, page 113

   They had been clumsily and crudely restored around the face and hair, and she had decided to unrestore them and return them as closely as possible to their original appearance.

   2013, Robert Holdstock, The Fetch, →ISBN