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undoing

/ʌnˈduːɪŋ/

undoing noun: the act of loosening or unfastening. Also the present participle and gerund of undo.

Noun

undoing (plural undoings)

  1. The act of loosening or unfastening
  2. Ruin; defeat, (also) that which causes defeat or ruin.
    • In the end, his jealousy was his undoing.
    • So far as the ape was concerned, Sabor reasoned correctly. The little fellow crouched trembling just an instant, but that instant was quite long enough to prove his undoing.1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert]...
  3. Annulment; reversal

Also used as

undoing is also the present participle and gerund of undo.

undoing meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam

undoing in Hindi

पूर्ववत करना

undoing in Marathi

पूर्ववत करणे, पूर्वपदावर आणणे

undoing in Bengali

পূর্বাবস্থায় আনা হচ্ছে, পূর্বাবস্থায় ফিরিয়ে আনা, পূর্বাবস্থায় নিয়ে যাওয়া

undoing in Malayalam

പഴയപടിയാക്കുന്നു, പഴയപടിയാക്കൽ
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undoing in Nepali
पूर्ववत गर्दै, पूर्ववत् गर्दै, पूर्ववत गर्दैछ

Examples of undoing in a sentence

  • The restoration of this medieval church involved undoing all the Victorian modifications.
  • The ancient Romans deconsecrated city walls with a plow, undoing the rituals that first established their course.
  • He maketh merry with us all oft and anon, and 'twill be to his own undoing.

All 21 example sentences with undoing

Forms of undoing

pluralundoings

Origin of undoing

From Middle English undoinge, undoynge, ondoynge; equivalent to undo + -ing.

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”).

Questions about undoing

What does undoing mean?
Undoing means the act of loosening or unfastening.
What is undoing in Hindi?
Undoing in Hindi is पूर्ववत करना. See Undoing meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is undoing?
Undoing is a noun.
How do you pronounce undoing?
Undoing is pronounced /ʌnˈduːɪŋ/.
What is the plural of undoing?
The plural of undoing is undoings.

Words near undoing in the dictionary

  1. undoglike
  2. undogmatic
  3. undogmatical
  4. undogmatically
  5. undogs
  6. undoing
  7. undoings
  8. undolorous
  9. undolphinlike
  10. undomed
  11. undomestic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: undoing (page history and authors); undoing (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); undoing (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); undoing (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); undoing (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); undoing (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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