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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Undo  \Un*do"\,  v.  t.  [AS.  und?n.  See  1st  {Un-},  and  Do  to 
  perform.] 
  1.  To  reverse,  as  what  has  been  done  to  annul;  to  bring  to 
  naught. 
 
  What's  done  can  not  be  undone.  --Shak. 
 
  To-morrow,  ere  the  setting  sun,  She  'd  all  undo  that 
  she  had  done  --Swift. 
 
  2.  To  loose;  to  open  to  take  to  piece;  to  unfasten;  to 
  untie;  hence  to  unravel;  to  solve;  as  to  undo  a  knot;  to 
  undo  a  puzzling  question;  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. 
 
  3.  To  bring  to  poverty;  to  impoverish;  to  ruin,  as  in 
  reputation,  morals,  hopes,  or  the  like  as  many  are 
  undone  by  unavoidable  losses,  but  more  undo  themselves  by 
  vices  and  dissipation,  or  by  indolence. 
 
  That  quaffing  and  drinking  will  undo  you  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  undo 
  v  1:  cancel  or  reverse  an  action  or  its  effect;  "I  wish  I  could 
  undo  my  actions" 
  2:  deprive  of  certain  characteristics  [syn:  {unmake}]  [ant:  {do}] 
  3:  make  undone;  revert  to  the  original  condition  or  situation; 
  "You  cannot  undo  the  damage!" 




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