"unperk" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "un- + perk",
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      "form": "unperks",
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      "form": "unperking",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1926, Neville Shute, chapter 1, in Marazan, London: Cassell",
          "text": "I told him I was going into Stokenchurch in his Ford whether he drove me or not. He perked up a bit at that, but I pretty soon unperked him, and at last we got going on the road to Stokenchurch.",
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        "To make (someone) less lively or enthusiastic."
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          "lively",
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          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
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        "(transitive) To make (someone) less lively or enthusiastic."
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          "ref": "2005, Warren Farrell, Why Men Earn More, New York: Amacom, Introduction, page xvi",
          "text": "[…] one single woman did perk up a bit, about there being a lot of single guys there, but then she unperked when she recalled that the cost of living is higher there.",
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        }
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        "To become less lively or enthusiastic."
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        "(intransitive) To become less lively or enthusiastic."
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  "word": "unperk"
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  "etymology_text": "un- + perk",
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        "present",
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        "third-person"
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      "form": "unperked",
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        "past"
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        "(transitive) To make (someone) less lively or enthusiastic."
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        }
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To become less lively or enthusiastic."
      ],
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