Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of unfastening or loosening.
- noun Ruin; destruction.
- noun The act of bringing to ruin.
- noun A cause or source of ruin; downfall.
- noun The act of reversing or annulling something accomplished; a cancellation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The reversal of what has been done: as, there is no undoing of the past.
- noun Ruin; destruction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The reversal of what has been done.
- noun Ruin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which
defeats . - verb Present participle of
undo .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun loosening the ties that fasten something
- noun an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done)
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Examples
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Jimmy Carter, who positioned himself a notch to the right of New Deal liberalism, also found appeal in undoing regulations.
Inside Man 2010
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Jimmy Carter, who positioned himself a notch to the right of New Deal liberalism, also found appeal in undoing regulations.
Inside Man 2010
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Also, if I remember correctly, Dr. Ornish is a physician who specializes in undoing some forms of cardio-vascular disease solely through diet and exercise (i.e., without surgery or other invasive procedures).
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And they would expect Bart Stupak to immediately begin undoing that proposal as soon as it passed.
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Michael: Yes, since PR sculpting wasn't working anyway, there is no point in undoing all the nonsense changes that people have learned to live with and depend on.
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing (page 185).
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A vote for Obama is the first step in undoing the damage caused by years of GOP abuse of power.
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And such undoing is a function of keen editorial attention.
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Indeed, for de Man, language actively participated in undoing its own figures of personification, disfiguring the human face by transforming it into an inanimate statue or by reducing it to the lines from an epitaph.
The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur 1997
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Indeed, for de Man, language actively participated in undoing its own figures of personification, disfiguring the human face by transforming it into an inanimate statue or by reducing it to the lines from an epitaph.
swimsuitissue commented on the word undoing
“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something… despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, by the feel, by the prospect of the touch, by the memory of the feel.”
-Judith Butler, Violence, Mourning, & Politics
December 12, 2014