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unadapt

unadapt verb: to undo the process of adaptation; to revert or restore to an original form.

Verb

unadapt (third-person singular simple present unadapts, present participle unadapting, simple past and past participle unadapted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To undo the process of adaptation; to revert or restore to an original form.
    • It seems clear that instead of simply adapting Das Nibelungenlied, Lang and von Harbou were seeking to unadapt it from Wagner by treating the rhetorical and presentational strategies of the Ring operas as encrustations […]2015, Joe McElhaney, A Companion to Fritz Lang, page 189
    • Cultivating it on a regular basis improves our attitude towards writing and makes us more resilient. But in order to make it work we have to 'unadapt' to the habituation that familiarity can bring, […]2017, Michael Alvear, The Bulletproof Author

Forms of unadapt

third-person singular presentunadapts
present participleunadapting
past participleunadapted
pastunadapted

Origin of unadapt

From un- + adapt.

Questions about unadapt

What does unadapt mean?
Unadapt means to undo the process of adaptation; to revert or restore to an original form.
What part of speech is unadapt?
Unadapt is a verb.
What is the past tense of unadapt?
The past tense of unadapt is unadapted.

Words near unadapt in the dictionary

  1. unactualizable
  2. unactualized
  3. unactuated
  4. unacute
  5. unacylated
  6. unadapt
  7. unadaptability
  8. unadaptable
  9. unadaptableness
  10. unadaptably
  11. unadapted

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