Undoing

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Undoing \Un*do"ing\, n.
     1. The reversal of what has been done.
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     2. Ruin. "The utter undoing of some." --Hooker.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  undoing
       n 1: an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not
            done)
       2: loosening the ties that fasten something; "the tying of bow
          ties is an art; the untying is easy" [syn: {untying}, {unfastening}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "undoing":
     Waterloo, abasement, affliction, annulment, bane, beating, blight,
     bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, cancellation, carnage, collapse,
     conquering, conquest, consumption, counterbalancing, crash, curse,
     damnation, deathblow, debacle, debasement, decimation, defeat,
     degradation, depredation, deprivation, descent, desolation,
     despoilment, despoliation, destroyer, destruction, devastation,
     disassembly, disgrace, disintegration, dismantlement,
     dismemberment, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, downfall,
     drubbing, failure, fall, frustration, havoc, hecatomb, hiding,
     holocaust, humiliation, invalidation, lambasting, lathering,
     licking, mastery, misfortune, mortification, neutralization,
     nullification, offsetting, overcoming, overthrow, overturn,
     perdition, quietus, ravage, ruin, ruination, shambles, shame,
     slaughter, smash, spoliation, stripping, subdual, subduing,
     subjugation, thrashing, thwarting, trimming, trouble, trouncing,
     vandalism, vanquishment, vitiation, voiding, waste, whipping,
     wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck