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单词 unmake
释义
unmake
verb[T]
uk
/ʌnˈmeɪk/us
/ʌnˈmeɪk/
unmade
todestroyareputationor acareer:
破坏（名誉或事业）
Actors'reputationshave been made and unmade on this Londonstage.就在伦敦的这个舞台上，一些演员一战成名，另一些却名誉扫地。
Synonym
undo
Opposite
make
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Destroying and demolishing
  • annihilate
  • annihilation
  • apocalypse
  • bash
  • bash through (something)
  • be sacrificed on the altar ofsomethingidiom
  • fall in
  • in piecesidiom
  • indestructibility
  • killsomethingoff
  • kill the goose that lays the golden eggidiom
  • sacrifice
  • self-destruct
  • self-devouring
  • shred
  • sink
  • smash
  • stave
  • stavesomethingin
  • tear
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(Definition ofunmakefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunmake

unmake
It is probably significant that 'defaire' can also mean tounmake, to unravel, to dismantle, to evade.
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These women tell their history from their point of view and challenge the authoritative story, though in many cases the past has the power to damage andunmakethe present.
From theCambridge English Corpus
But none of us knows how tounmakethat dreadful machine.
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That is because it is illegal tounmakemunitions.
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We know perfectly well that taxes are not going to make orunmakemarket laws, but you cannot avoid that position.
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It, and it alone, can make andunmakeat its will, can destroy every institution in the country, and alter every fundamental law.
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We can also see that the last year has unmade some of the mistakes committed earlier in this century.
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I came down here with my mind absolutely unmade up on the question.
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If it were the wives who made him at the last election, the wives willunmakehim at the next.
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We are now giving them the power tounmakelaw, which may also profoundly affect our lives.
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From the beginning of history the fortunes of men and nations were made and unmade in unending cycles of war and peace.
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We cannot make it andunmakeit according the peaks and corresponding dips in our economy.
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It should make andunmakegovernments; it should control their finances and have the right ultimately to secure its legislation.
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Hitherto it is always possible for those who make the laws to repeal them again, and tounmakethem, provided the electors remain the same or substantially the same.
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It was therefore in their power to make orunmakea citizen.
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