unform

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ form.

Verb

unform (third-person singular simple present unforms, present participle unforming, simple past and past participle unformed)

1. To destroy the form of; to decompose, or resolve into parts; to unmake.
   • 1826, John Mason Good, “Lecture VII. On Geology. (The Subject Continued.)”, in The Book of Nature. […], volumes I (Series I. Nature of the Material World; […].), London: […] [A[ndrew] & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 154:

     Such are a few of the numerous causes that contribute to the disunion of concrete bodies, and powerfully co-operate with that wonderful fluid which alternately forms and unforms; which creates , decomposes , and regenerates all nature.

Further reading

• “unform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.