undoing
IPA: ʌndˈuɪŋ
noun
- The act of loosening or unfastening
- Ruin; defeat, (also) that which causes defeat or ruin.
- Annulment; reversal
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Examples of "undoing" in Sentences
- Division is the undoing of multiplication.
- The diaspora was the ultimate undoing of the homeland.
- The demented mind of The Curse proves to be his undoing.
- And such undoing is a function of keen editorial attention.
- The undoing of this paradigm appears in the inflation article.
- The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing (page 185).
- A vote for Obama is the first step in undoing the damage caused by years of GOP abuse of power.
- And they would expect Bart Stupak to immediately begin undoing that proposal as soon as it passed.
- Jimmy Carter, who positioned himself a notch to the right of New Deal liberalism, also found appeal in undoing regulations.
- Michael: Yes, since PR sculpting wasn't working anyway, there is no point in undoing all the nonsense changes that people have learned to live with and depend on.
- Also, if I remember correctly, Dr. Ornish is a physician who specializes in undoing some forms of cardio-vascular disease solely through diet and exercise (i.e., without surgery or other invasive procedures).
- Indeed, for de Man, language actively participated in undoing its own figures of personification, disfiguring the human face by transforming it into an inanimate statue or by reducing it to the lines from an epitaph.
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