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English
Etymology
un- + roof
Verb
unroof (third-person singular simple present unroofs, present participle unroofing, simple past and past participle unroofed)
- To remove a roof from, e.g. a building.
c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :The rabble should have first unroof'd the city, / Ere so prevail'd with me:
1787, Robert Burns, Written by Somebody on the Window of an Inn at Stirling, 1-4:Here Stuarts once in glory reigned, / And laws for Scotland's weal ordained; / But now unroof'd their palace stands, / Their sceptre's sway'd by other hands;
1960, Ted Hughes, “Nicholas Ferrer”, in Lupercal, Faber & Faber, page 25:[…] Rain-logged, wind-unroofed, / The manor farm hulked its last use / As landmark. […]
2006, Swithin Wilmot, “'We not slave again': Enslaved Jamaicans in Early Freedom, 1838-1865”, in Marc Kleijwegt, editor, The Faces of Freedom: The Manumission and Emancipation of Slaves in Old World and New World Slavery, Brill, page 222:When the workers rejected these terms, some planters threatened to evict them, and others unroofed cottages and turned estate cattle through the workers’ provision grounds.
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