Definition of disinvent in English:
disinvent
verbdɪsɪnˈvɛntˌdisinˈvent
[with object]Undo the invention of.
you can't disinvent nuclear power
Example sentencesExamples
- If I could disinvent alcohol and cannabis, I'd be tempted to do it.
- Some argue that this is a fantasy because nuclear weapons, and chemical and biological weapons, cannot be disinvented.
- There is no way that what has been invented can be disinvented.
- Could Sydney - one of the great cosmopolitan cities of the world - really be disinvented in the name of progress?
- The Siberians' survival as a nation, despite Communist rule and immigration, demonstrates ‘how hard it is to disinvent nationalities’.
- The problem is to be a thinking thing; the solution is to revert to a prethinking state, and even - in the most extreme voices in his fiction - to disinvent humanity itself.
- Participants were asked which innovation they'd most like to disinvent.