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English
Etymology
From un- + represent.
Verb
unrepresent (third-person singular simple present unrepresents, present participle unrepresenting, simple past and past participle unrepresented)
- (transitive) To undo the representation of; to refuse or cease to represent.
2013, Catherine Bates, “Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water”, in Gillian Roberts, David Stirrup, editors, Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada–US Border (Cultural Studies), Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 158:As such, he paints the “Indians” back into the nineteenth-century landscapes that have attempted to unrepresent them; he tries (repeatedly) to rebury the skull; he installs signs to “teac the Grass about Green” (43) and “Sky about Blue” (45); he replaces the buffalo with iron versions; and he tries to paint away the church.