What's the difference between uncreate and unmake?

Uncreate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deprive of existence; to annihilate.
  • (a.) Uncreated; self-existent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is, however, uncreative and strangely un-childcentred –the opposite of how it is sold.
  • (2) Countering the claims about creativity being quashed, he said: "So does that mean scientists from Rutherford to Dawkins are arid and uncreative mechanics?
  • (3) The first part describes the difficulties encountered in entering the scientific profession and staying there if one is a woman; the difficulties in combating the degrading sterotypes about women that are commonly held (women are believed to be submissive, unintelligent, uncreative, etc.
  • (4) On the other hand, I know a bunch of viciously uncreative minds who consume news like drugs.
  • (5) "For a so-called creative industry we are being very uncreative in the way we approach this topic."
  • (6) I've worked in commercial TV companies – they are the most uncreative places.
  • (7) Test administration was to be relieved of those activities, in particular in repeat testing, examiners experienced as weary, unpleasant, repetitive, and uncreative.
  • (8) Nearly three-quarters (73%) agreed that current policies for the school curriculum and pupil assessment are narrow and uncreative.

Unmake


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To destroy the form and qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But here in dismal prospect, if he gets it wrong, is the unmaking of the Obama presidency, the betrayal of all those who believed his election heralded a shift away from the confrontational behaviours of the past.
  • (2) Now parliament must save us | Polly Toynbee Read more The judgment ruled: “The most fundamental rule of the UK constitution is that parliament is sovereign and can make and unmake any law it chooses ... By making and unmaking treaties the crown [ie the government] creates legal effects on the plane of international law, but in doing so it does not and cannot change domestic law.
  • (3) It's been a weird couple of weeks and I have followed most of it from a dark corner of a Cardiff radio studio, where my play If Only – about the making and possible unmaking of the coalition – was being recorded.
  • (4) He says he will inevitably forget to tell his office of all interactions with these friends, adding: You can't unmake the friendships that you have; some of them I've known for 20 to 30 years.

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