undoing

Examples

• All

• It means that sin intends death, intends non-being, and is self-undoing.

  Academic text (1990)

• And at the moment, bacteria are better at undoing knots than humans are.

  The Royal Institution

• "The doing is the way something begins," the old man explained, "and the undoing is the way it ends."

  Fiction book (1993)

• Singing and wasting your breath can be the same thing," wrote Catherine Clement in Opera, or the Undoing of Women.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The acts of "undoing" and "unlayering" are, on one level, simply necessary for disrobing the patient for a proper physical exam; that a nurse accompanies the oncologist also softens the image somehow.

  Academic text (2014)

• He carefully began the undoing of the laces on his shoes before walking on the sand.

• The sailor spoke about the undoing of the rigging that held the sails in place.

Synonyms

U

untying

vsundoing

1 2.1

Making a knot or tie loose so you can open it

applies to loosening ties or bindings generally not only knot cases

U

uncoupling

vsundoing

1 5.0

Separating things that were joined before, for example train cars

is about loosening ties or bindings rather than broad separations

U

untangling

vsundoing

1 4.1

A way of freeing things and ideas from knots, like wires or thoughts

focuses on loosening ties or bindings rather than releasing knots or tangles

U

unfastening

vsundoing

3.5

Loosening something that is tied or fixed

focuses specifically on loosening ties or bindings rather than other separations

U

unsnarling

vsundoing

8.1

Removing knots from something like a chain or hair

is about loosening simple bindings rather than solving snarled messes

Antonyms

B

binding

17 3.9

A strip of cloth or material that covers and holds the edge of something

F

fastening

2 3.9

A thing that holds two parts together so they stay secure

How Loose

undoing

1 4.6

loosening

6 3.4

slackening

1 5.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology