unbombast

== English == === Etymology === From un- +‎ bombast. === Verb === unbombast (third-person singular simple present unbombasts, present participle unbombasting, simple past and past participle unbombasted) (transitive, rare) To take down or discredit (bombastic speech or writing). Quoted in: 1999, Dawn Currie, Girl Talk: Adolescent Magazines and Their Readers (page 11) Earlier in the year he had written to Backhouse, 'will it not then be singularly hard if we cannot find time to unbombast the impudence of the matchless Jonathan?'