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5 words match “UNDOING”

UNDOING n. 2 definitions
Ruin. "The utter undoing of some." Hooker.
DEFEAT n.
An undoing or annulling; destruction. [Obs.] Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. Shak.
NOW adv.
t this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber. John xviii. 40. The other great and undoing mischief which befalls men is, by their being misrepresented. Now, by calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to others in the way of slander. South. Now and again, now and then; occasionally. -- Now and now, again and…
UNDO v.
; to undo a riddle. Tennyson. Pray you, undo this button. Shak. She took the spindle, and undoing the thread gradually, measured it. Sir W. Scott.
UNLACE v.
To loose by undoing a lacing; as, to unlace a shoe.