Undoing
//ʌnˈduːɪŋ// noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of loosening or unfastening
- 2 loosening the ties that fasten something wordnet
- 3 Ruin; defeat, (also) that which causes defeat or ruin.
"In the end, his jealousy was his undoing."
- 4 an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done) wordnet
- 5 Annulment; reversal
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of undo form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English undoinge, undoynge, ondoynge; equivalent to undo + -ing.
Etymology 2
From Middle English undoynge, undoand, from Old English undōnde (“undoing”), from Proto-Germanic *andadōndz, present participle of *andadōną (“to undo”). Cognate with Dutch ontdoend (“undoing”).
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