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Undone   /əndˈən/   Listen
Undone

adjective
1.
Not done.
2.
Doomed to extinction.  Synonyms: done for, ruined, sunk, washed-up.
3.
Not fastened or tied or secured.  "His shoelaces were undone"
4.
Thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence.  Synonym: unstuck.



Undo

verb
(past undid; past part. undone; pres. part. undoing)
1.
Cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect.
2.
Deprive of certain characteristics.  Synonym: unmake.
3.
Cause the ruin or downfall of.
4.
Cause to become loose.  Synonyms: loosen, untie.  "Untie the knot" , "Loosen the necktie"
5.
Remove the outer cover or wrapping of.  Synonym: unwrap.  "Undo the parcel"



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"Undone" Quotes from Famous Books



... lived, and it was impossible to guess, how, in a generous, impulsive moment, she might sacrifice herself. That night she stayed with me, and both Walter and papa called; and I saw in an instant, that in her generous pity, she was going to do a work that could never be undone. Poor Walter was nearly beside himself with joy and encouragement. She sang for him, and oh, how many times have I gone back to that night, when you have been singing to me, with your mother's voice, ...
— Six Girls - A Home Story • Fannie Belle Irving
 
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... owes every thing to me. I found him penniless, and raised him to a condition that should have inspired him with regard and gratitude. I would have trusted that man with confidence unbounded. I did entrust him with my all, and he has beggared and undone me." ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various
 
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... as patient and as fine a man as breathed. Your husband, I don't know him, but life is so short. So terribly short. So full of pain and regrets for what can't be undone. That's why I cannot go and leave my boy behind—to suffer alone. I want him to go first. He's not strong. What is life, except doing for those we love? Don't you ever feel that about them out there, Lilly? Life ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
 
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... with it the Todds. All that winter they had been so far from me, often so far from my thoughts even, that the remembrance of them would bring a shock like a sudden consciousness of sin or the recollection of a duty left undone. My fiancee's communication with me had dwindled to a weekly post-card. At first these had carried to me some little hint of affection, but latterly Gladys had contented herself with commonplace scrawls announcing that this was where they were staying for a few days or ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd
 
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... often thought, and said, What sin would be upon her head If she should suffer this: 'My Son, Whate'er you do, leave this undone; The danger ...
— Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 • Dorothy Wordsworth
 
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