Unroof

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove a roof from, e.g. a building.

    "The rabble should have first unroof'd the city, / Ere so prevail'd with me:"

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"The rabble should have first unroof'd the city, / Ere so prevail'd with me:"

Etymology

From un- + roof.

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