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Remove the outer cover or wrapping of
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undoing
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Word definitions for undoing in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done) loosening the ties that fasten something; "the tying of bow ties is an art; the untying is easy" [syn: untying , unfastening ]
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Undoing is a 2006 neo-noir drama film directed by Chris Chan Lee . The film is set in the streets of Los Angeles' Koreatown and follows the story of Samuel Kim who returns after a mysterious one-year absence to find redemption from his past. Undoing stars ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undoing \Un*do"ing\, n. The reversal of what has been done. Ruin. ``The utter undoing of some.'' --Hooker.
Usage examples of undoing.
Social condemnation should stigmatize the wrong of mismating, not the undoing of such a wrong.
He had never made her a single present and even her ring was found to be brass and therefore neither valid nor binding: whereas the present Jack had given her long ago yet not so very long ago neither was close to her heart at this very moment: she had put on a new pinner for the occasion, and now undoing it she leant over the table, showing him the diamond pendant he had bought for her in the year two, one of the many charming fruits of a valuable prize, nestling low in her bosom.
In dry clothes and in good spirits, Jim and George turned their teams onto Scroggy Creek Road, a notorious ninety-mile stretch of trail that has been the undoing of many a Quest team.
You should not have sent me, Shool, for I did not fail and it resulted in your undoing.
She begari undoing the long row of buttons down the front of her coveralls and shrugged out of the garment, then unfastened and stepped out of her underwear.
Sorry, guys, but how about if our landlord Copes came in to fix some pipes, started undoing this magical tape and left his fingerprint on it.
Brianna patted her hair, frowning, then pulled off the ribbon and began to comb her fingers slowly through it, undoing the tangles as a preliminary to brushing it.
He recalled undoing all the tiny buttons and fancy geegaws as she sat upon his knees, hindering him by pressing teasing little kisses all over his face.
Mrs Verloc, undoing some hooks of her bodice, while she went on staring ahead beyond the splashboard, handed over to him the new pigskin pocket-book.
Elaine de Frey and her fortune might have been the making of Comus, but he had hurried in as usual to effect his own undoing.
She saw how she had wrought her own undoing by consenting to accept the perfidious role imposed upon her by her father, and how she, herself, had paved the way for the falsehoods, slander, crimes and misfortunes of which she had been the victim.
After a few seconds she felt gentle hands undoing her wrist restraints, the movements accompanied by soft tuneless humming.
Caralie actually wanted to bundle Kaycee into her arms, hug her tightly against her heart and never let her go, but she knew it would be her undoing.
Up the stairs she paused to run the bath, down the hall undoing her blouse with the worn address book still tight in her hand she'd barely lit the bedroom and slipped off her shoes, barely come down among the papers on the bed bent over the last of them, the cool, grey calm of his eyes belying.
Long masculine fingers began undoing the buttons on the shirt she had borrowed.