unbombast

English

Etymology

un- +‎ bombast

Verb

unbombast (third-person singular simple present unbombasts, present participle unbombasting, simple past and past participle unbombasted)

1. (transitive, rare) To take down or discredit (bombastic speech or writing).
   • 1969, The Monthly American Journal of Geology and Natural Science, page 515:

     We wish Mr. Rafinesque to understand, that when any pseudo scientific publication is published here, calculated to mislead at home, and to discredit the country abroad, we shall proceed to unbombast it as soon as our leisure permits.

   • Quoted in: 1999, Dawn Currie, Girl Talk: Adolescent Magazines and Their Readers (page 11)

     Earlier in the year he had written to Backhouse, 'will it not then be singularly hard if we cannot find time to unbombast the impudence of the matchless Jonathan?'