to undo
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2.6
- verb
- /ʌnˈdu/
:
deshacer
- She realized it was impossible to undo the changes she had already saved.
- undo the damage
- attempt to undo
- try to undo
This plan would only undo a fifth of those cuts.
- This plan would only undo a fifth of those cuts.
- Imagine life without the undo button now, right?
- But then what I do is I undo this section.
- An attacker can rewrite history, can undo transactions.
- You as an adult cannot undo another adult narcissist's history.
- No one has ever found a way to undo this with two crossing switches.
- You know, you, you have to sort of, you know, undo this effect of having not moved.
Examples
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You can't undo what's happened, son, but you can make up for it.
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They still need us to shield them from harm and help them undo damage once it's been done.
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But then what I do is I undo this section.
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And well, you cannot undo that kind of work.
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So what we're trying to do is train a network to undo this process.
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You cannot undo this choice, brother.
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Now you got to undo it.
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"Sometimes you act like, if you think hard enough, you could undo the past."
Fiction book (1993) -
Now that he had said this, he could not undo it.
Academic text (2018) -
This plan would only undo a fifth of those cuts.
Synonyms
224
1.0
To make a ticket, order, or rule no longer valid
143
4.3
To cancel a law or rule so it no longer applies
122
5.6
Officially cancel a decision or law
107
2.9
To set something back to its original state
96
6.2
Officially stop something from being valid, for example a license
67
4.2
To go back to a previous state or way of doing things
44
7.9
Officially cancel a law, order, or agreement
41
6.0
To take back a statement or opinion in public
12
4.0
Make one thing stop the effect of another so nothing happens
12
6.8
To make something lose its effect or value
10
8.8
To officially cancel a law, agreement, or right
6
9.2
To cancel or reverse an earlier order
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7.5
To undo or destroy something created earlier
To remove a choice or value so it no longer applies
To remove text from paper or a screen
To undo a previous change in a computer program
Antonyms
How Reversed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Undo comes from the old prefix un- meaning 'reverse' and the verb do, so it originally meant to 'reverse what was done'. That's why to undo something today is to cancel or reverse its effect.