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Undoing   /əndˈuɪŋ/   Listen
Undoing

noun
1.
An act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done).
2.
Loosening the ties that fasten something.  Synonyms: unfastening, untying.


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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"Undoing" Quotes from Famous Books



... me I was assured, and I swore that if I lived I would win her yet, in spite of every obstacle that I myself had raised for my undoing. ...
— Bardelys the Magnificent • Rafael Sabatini
... to the Catholic people of Ireland means, if it means anything, the undoing of the Reformation, the replacing of the Church of the great majority in the position from which ...
— Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 • Robert Ornsby
... Aglaia Hath heard them debate Of wooing repenting— "Who trust to undoing, Lament them ...
— The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" • Q
... her yet. . . . I don't know what you two quarreled about, but I do know that when she saw you on the stage at the first rehearsal she became so greatly afraid that you might eclipse her that she immediately began to lay plans for your undoing. I saw how she hung about that amateur, how she fawned upon his cousin and Cabinski, how she kissed the hands of the directress! I saw with my own eyes! Did you ever hear of anyone degrading one's self in ...
— The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont
... hesitate on civil war, in which victory may bring ruin, and disappointment endanger their heads.... Acquisition alone can make burdens palatable, and in a war with our own colonies we must inflict instead of acquiring them, and we cannot recover them without undoing them. I am still to learn wisdom and experience, if these things are not so." (Letter to Mann, January 25, 1775.) "A war with our colonies, which is now declared, is a proof how much influence jargon has on human actions. A war on our own trade is popular." (February 15, ...
— Gibbon • James Cotter Morison


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