- present participle of unmake.
unmaking
Example Sentences
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Whether she will be his making or unmaking is an open question.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
What the voyage now represents is the unmaking of ideas from some of the great thinkers and creators of the age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025
Bess entered the room and immediately started unmaking the bed.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022
Making and unmaking an anus sounds like such an ordeal, you might imagine comb jellies poop rarely.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2021
She was not alive and she knew it, but...whatever her new state might lack, it was infinitely preferable to the unmaking that had almost devoured her.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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