undestroy

English

Etymology

un- +‎ destroy

Verb

undestroy (third-person singular simple present undestroys, present participle undestroying, simple past and past participle undestroyed)

1. (transitive) To undo the destruction of; to restore or recreate.
   • 1975, Newsletter, volumes 5-8, University of Michigan Computing Center, page 4:

     People could then UNDESTROY files which they had deleted by mistake.

   • 1993, Elwood Babbitt, Perfect Health: Accept No Substitutes:

     Do you think we should be getting into how to undestroy it or put it back to normal?

   • 2018, Jesse Matz, Modernist Time Ecology, page 213:

     But taken together and contextualized within the film's pragmatic designs, they become an invitation to undestroy everything by learning to read the already written future.