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uncreating

uncreating is the present participle and gerund of uncreate.

Meaning of uncreate

Verb

uncreate (third-person singular simple present uncreates, present participle uncreating, simple past and past participle uncreated)

  1. (transitive) To kill; to destroy; to deprive of existence; to annihilate.
    • Who can uncreate thee, thou shalt know.1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  2. (transitive) To undo the act of creating.
    • They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation.1930, G. K. Chesterton, The Resurrection of Rome

Questions about uncreating

What is uncreating the present participle and gerund of?
Uncreating is the present participle and gerund of uncreate.

Words near uncreating in the dictionary

  1. uncreateability
  2. uncreated
  3. uncreatedness
  4. uncreates
  5. uncreatibility
  6. uncreating
  7. uncreation
  8. uncreative
  9. uncreatively
  10. uncreativeness
  11. uncreatives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncreating (page history and authors); uncreate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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