Meaning of unput | Babel Free

Definitions

undone or apart; in a state of disarray

not-comparable

Examples

“I really don't know how it is that my clothes always manage to come unput. Other girls look as smart and neat as a new pin all the time; my dresses and overalls get on one side immediately; all my buttons come undone […]”

“Nevertheless, here it all was, cast, pressed and spun, with plastic handles, wooden handles or metal handles, warranted by optimistic manufacturers never to get too hot, and never to come unput.”

“I saw the solid world come unput at our feet. I didn't see the logic: how you would leave behind friends, family, a fixed address, even your books, until one tactful line in the Hatched-Matched-and-Despatched: Died Suddenly.”

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