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unroof

unroof verb: to remove a roof from, e.g. a building.

Verb

unroof (third-person singular simple present unroofs, present participle unroofing, simple past and past participle unroofed)

  1. To remove a roof from, e.g. a building.
    • The rabble should have first unroof'd the city, / Ere so prevail'd with me:c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • Here Stuarts once in glory reigned, / And laws for Scotland's weal ordained; / But now unroof'd their palace stands, / Their sceptre's sway'd by other hands;1787, Robert Burns, Written by Somebody on the Window of an Inn at Stirling, 1-4

Examples of unroof in a sentence

  • […] Rain-logged, wind-unroofed, / The manor farm hulked its last use / As landmark. […]1960, Ted Hughes, “Nicholas Ferrer”, in Lupercal, Faber & Faber, page 25:
  • When the workers rejected these terms, some planters threatened to evict them, and others unroofed cottages and turned estate cattle through the workers’ provision grounds.2006, Swithin Wilmot, “'We not slave again': Enslaved Jamaicans in Early Freedom, 1838-1865”, in Marc Kleijwegt, editor, The Faces of...

Forms of unroof

third-person singular presentunroofs
present participleunroofing
past participleunroofed
pastunroofed

Origin of unroof

From un- + roof.

Questions about unroof

What does unroof mean?
Unroof means to remove a roof from, e.g. a building.
How do you use unroof in a sentence?
[…] Rain-logged, wind-unroofed, / The manor farm hulked its last use / As landmark. […]
What part of speech is unroof?
Unroof is a verb.
What is the past tense of unroof?
The past tense of unroof is unroofed.

Words near unroof in the dictionary

  1. unromantically
  2. unromanticised
  3. unromanticizable
  4. unromanticized
  5. unromanticizing
  6. unroof
  7. unroofed
  8. unroofing
  9. unroofs
  10. unroominess
  11. unroomy

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