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单词 unmaker
释义

unmakern.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈmeɪkə/, U.S. /ˌənˈmeɪkər/
Forms: see unmake v. and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: unmake v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < unmake v. + -er suffix1.
A person who unmakes a person or thing (in various senses of the verb); esp. a destroyer.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys
baneOE
losera1340
leeserc1380
stroyerc1380
destroyer1382
ravenerc1390
castera1400
confounder1401
wastera1425
stroyc1440
undoerc1440
unmakerc1450
confounderess1509
hydraa1513
stroy-good1540
abolisher1548
thunderbolt1559
disannullera1572
stroy-all1573
ruiner1581
down-puller1583
murdererc1585
spendingc1595
blaster1598
assassin1609
ruinater1609
dissolver1611
minerc1614
destructioner1621
fordoer1631
sinker1632
destructive1640
deletery1642
assassinatea1658
ruinator1658
destroyeress1662
destructora1691
dissolvent1835
solvent1841
wrecker1882
destructant1889
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 144 This hand is an vnmakere of howses.
1684 R. Baxter Whether Parish Congregations 40 The Magistrate may command men how to do their office-work, and yet neither be the maker nor unmaker of the office.
1741 Europe's Catech. 4 I believe in the Power of Louis, Monarch most mighty, Maker and Unmaker of Kings; and in the Craftiness of the old Cardinal.
1791 L. Littlepage Let. 26 Dec. in T. Jefferson Papers (1986) XXII. 456 Nobody really gave into it, except the Swedish Maker, and unmaker, of Revolutions.
1811 Ld. Byron Let. 25 Sept. (1973) II. 106 Lucinda to be commander..of all the makers and unmakers of beds in the household.
1862 C. Crosland Mrs. Blake II. 47 That the soldier is rather an ‘unmaker’ and instrument of destruction than anything else.
1893 W. Watson Lachrymæ Musarum 26 Unmaker of all, and renewer, The Lord of Death.
1944 J. Laird Device Govt. vi. 100 The electorate is the government maker or unmaker, not itself the government.
2013 Times (Nexis) 28 Sept. Was that a pig squealing under the slaughtering knife, or another monk meeting his unmaker?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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