unroof

verb

1. To remove a roof from, e.g. a building.

   “The rabble should have first unroof'd the city, / Ere so prevail'd with me:”

   “Here Stuarts once in glory reigned, / And laws for Scotland's weal ordained; / But now unroof'd their palace stands, / Their sceptre's sway'd by other hands;”

   “[…] Rain-logged, wind-unroofed, / The manor farm hulked its last use / As landmark. […]”

   “When the workers rejected these terms, some planters threatened to evict them, and others unroofed cottages and turned estate cattle through the workers’ provision grounds.”