undoing
/'ʌn'du:iɳ/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The act of reversing or canceling something: The process of making a previous action or condition as if it never happened.
- A cause of ruin, downfall, or destruction: The specific factor or mistake that leads to someone's failure or collapse.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- The undoing of the contract took several weeks of legal work. (The reversal/cancellation of the contract...)
- His arrogance proved to be his undoing in the final debate. (His arrogance was the cause of his downfall.)
- The software allows for the undoing of the last ten edits. (The reversal of the last ten edits.)
Advanced Usage
- "To be someone's undoing": To be the specific cause of someone's ruin or failure.
- That one careless mistake was his undoing.
- "The undoing of a spell/knot/promise": The act of reversing or untying something that was previously established.
- The wizard performed the ritual for the undoing of the curse.
Variants and Related Words
- Undo (verb): To reverse, untie, or cancel the effect of something.
- Can you undo the last command?
- Undone (adjective): Not done; or, ruined or destroyed.
- The work was left undone. / He was utterly undone by the scandal.
Synonyms
- Ruin: The physical destruction or complete loss of fortune, which is the result of an "undoing."
- Downfall: A sudden loss of power, status, or wealth.
- Reversal: A change to an opposite direction, position, or course of action.
- Annulment: An official declaration that something is invalid.
Related Phrases
- "Seal someone's fate/undoing": To make someone's failure or ruin certain.
- That damning evidence sealed his undoing.
- "The means of one's own undoing": Refers to creating the very conditions that lead to one's failure.
- In his quest for power, he created the means of his own undoing.
Noun
- loosening the ties that fasten something; the untying is easy"
- the tying of bow ties is an art
- an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done)