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Antonyms for undoing

Grammar : Noun
Spell : uhn-doo-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈdu ɪŋ

Definition of undoing

Origin :
  • Old English undon "to unfasten and open" (a window or door), "to unfasten by releasing from a fixed position," from un- (2) + do (v.). The notion is of "to annul something that was done." Related: Undone; undoing.
  • noun destruction, misfortune
Example sentences :
  • He could not have chosen a more opportune time to confirm his own undoing.
  • Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
  • Wherefore this caution against me, but (pardon me) for thine own undoing?
  • Extract from : « Leila, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • It is not the doing of a year; it is the undoing of the years.
  • Extract from : « Bride of the Mistletoe » by James Lane Allen
  • Having enmeshed him, she confidently left him to complete his own undoing.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Murphy cast one despairing glance about him and slouched to his undoing.
  • Extract from : « Old Man Curry » by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
  • The pages of history record its undoing and its accessory to crime.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • She said her kind disposition would be the undoing of her and she knew it.
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • The table seemed likely to be his undoing instead of helping him.
  • Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini
  • He feared that men might be swayed by your eloquence to the undoing of such things as himself.
  • Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
  • He little thought how that fruit of his vanity was to prove his undoing thereafter.
  • Extract from : « The Tavern Knight » by Rafael Sabatini

Synonyms for undoing

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