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Synonyms for undoing

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Synonyms for undoing

the act of destroying or state of being destroyed

something that causes total loss or severe impairment, as of one's health, fortune, honor, or hopes

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Synonyms for undoing

an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done)

loosening the ties that fasten something

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Things will have their first, or second agitation: if they be not tossed upon the arguments of counsel, they will be tossed upon the waves of fortune; and be full of inconstancy, doing and undoing, like the reeling of a drunken man.
"Is he aiming at doing anything, or simply undoing what's been done?
The men from the open lists shot fairly true, but nervousness and fear of ridicule wrought their undoing.
Yet he found a third, for, undoing the strips of his moocha, he made ropes of them, and with the ropes he bound Nada on his back and started for the king's kraal.
(which was to twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep tight hold of its right ear and left foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself,) she carried it out into the open air.