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  • verb Present participle of unform.

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Examples

  • Even as he did, the ghostly images swayed, sliding on the platinum, shifting in the mirrors, unforming and forming again.

    Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

  • Those first two movements were called Commencement and Ward Off Left, and consisted of shifting weight from one leg to another, the turning of the torso, and the forming and unforming of the hands and arms into a ball, all beneath the sardonic supervision of the raven, who occasionally added a click of reinforcement to one of Moses 'brusque commands from the low branch of a white spruce.

    Fire and Ice Stabenow, Dana 1998

  • ‘… a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of litter.’

    Brian Ruckley · Half A Millennium / Alien Surfaces 2008

  • But they are equally good at unforming opinion, breaking it down, stretching it out. "

    Blogpulse Top Links 2010

  • But they are equally good at unforming opinion, breaking it down, stretching it out. "

    PressThink Jay Rosen 2010

  • But they are equally good at unforming opinion, breaking it down, stretching it out. "

    PressThink 2009

  • But they are equally good at unforming opinion, breaking it down, stretching it out. "

    Extra! Extra! 2009

  • But they are equally good at unforming opinion, breaking it down, stretching it out. "

    PressThink 2008

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