Unadapt
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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
More examples"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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