Uncoalesce
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To separate from a coalesced state. transitive
"It is clear that what sound change has coalesced, sound change cannot uncoalesce; and the probability is vanishingly small that analogy and borrowing should proceed in such a way as to restore just the situation that had pertained before the restructuring."
Example
More examples"It is clear that what sound change has coalesced, sound change cannot uncoalesce; and the probability is vanishingly small that analogy and borrowing should proceed in such a way as to restore just the situation that had pertained before the restructuring."
Etymology
From un- + coalesce.
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