Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unroof

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-roof
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

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

Example Sentences

"The rabble should have first unroof'd the city, / Ere so prevail'd with me:"
"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;"
"[…] Rain-logged, wind-unroofed, / The manor farm hulked its last use / As landmark. […]"
"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."

Etymology

From un- + roof.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

unroofs (present, singular) unroofing (participle, present) unroofed (participle, past) unroofed (past)

Questions

What does unroof mean?: To remove a roof from, e.g. a building.
Where does unroof come from?: From un- + roof.

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