unrepresent
Verb
To undo the representation of; to refuse or cease to represent.
Usage- Transitive
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As such, he paints the “Indians” back into the nineteenth-century landscapes that have attempted to unrepresent them; he tries (repeatedly) to rebury the skull; he installs signs to “teac[h] the Grass about Green” (43) and “Sky about Blue” (45); he replaces the buffalo with iron versions; and he tries to paint away the church.
Word forms
unrepresentsunrepresentingunrepresentedunrepresented