Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who undoes, in any sense; one who reverses what has been done; one who ruins.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who undoes anything; especially, one who ruins another.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun agent noun of undo; one who undoes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a seducer who ruins a woman
  • noun a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
  • noun a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens

Etymologies

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undo +‎ -er

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Examples

  • I don't think Kinsella is a thinker; he's a doer, or more accurately an undoer.

    News -- and a blogger defence fund? - Ezra Levant 2008

  • I don't think Kinsella is a thinker; he's a doer, or more accurately an undoer.

    Ezra Levant: January 2008 Archives 2008

  • She sought not to know the object for which she was forsaken; she meant not to upbraid her undoer; her aim was to find

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

  • Though he mastered her chastity, he could not quiet her conscience, which incessantly upbraided her with breach of the marriage vow; nor did her undoer escape without a share of the reproaches suggested by her penitence and remorse.

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

  • I was seized, disarmed, and withheld by two footmen; and in this situation felt the most exquisite torture in beholding my undoer approach with his young wife.

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • Without even knowing who it is that hopes to marry, his instinct is to be the spoiler, the undoer of merriment.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • "Who should it be," said the barber, "but the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of injustice, the righter of wrongs, the protector of damsels, the terror of giants, and the winner of battles?"

    Don Quixote 2002

  • Andres, and said, "Come here, my son, I want to pay you what I owe you, as that undoer of wrongs has commanded me."

    Don Quixote 2002

  • 'A woman's ne'er so ruined but she can Revenge herself on her undoer, Man. '

    The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1923

  • And thus I (that was born to be my own undoer) once more barred myself out from all that life offered me of happiness, since pride is ever purblind.

    Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

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