Unadapt

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To undo the process of adaptation; to revert or restore to an original form. ambitransitive

    "It seems clear that instead of simply adapting Das Nibelungenlied, Lang and von Harbou were seeking to unadapt it from Wagner by treating the rhetorical and presentational strategies of the Ring operas as encrustations […]"

Example

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"It seems clear that instead of simply adapting Das Nibelungenlied, Lang and von Harbou were seeking to unadapt it from Wagner by treating the rhetorical and presentational strategies of the Ring operas as encrustations […]"

Etymology

From un- + adapt.

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