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undo
English
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /?n?du?/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophone: undue (in yod dropping dialects)
Etymology 1
From Middle English und?n, from Old English ond?n, from Proto-Germanic *andad?n? (“to undo”), equivalent to un- +? do. Cognate with West Frisian ûndwaan, ûntdwaan (“to undo; rid”), Dutch ontdoen (“to undo”).
Verb
undo (third-person singular simple present undoes, present participle undoing, simple past undid, past participle undone) (transitive)
- To reverse the effects of an action.
- Fortunately, we can undo most of the damage to the system by the war.
- To unfasten.
- Could you undo my buckle for me?
- (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
- 1611, King James Bible
- Woe is me, for I am undone!
- 1611, King James Bible
Synonyms
- (reverse effects): cancel, reverse
- (unfasten): unbuckle, unbutton, untie, unzip
Antonyms
- (reverse effects): redo
- (unfasten): do up, button, button up, tie up, zip, zip up,
Translations
Noun
undo (plural undos)
- (computing) An operation that reverses a previous action.
- How many undos does this program support?
Translations
Etymology 2
Adjective
undo
- Misspelling of undue.
Further reading
- undo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Anagrams
- udon
Latin
Etymology
From unda (“a wave”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?un.do?/, [??n?d?o?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?un.do/, [?un?d??]
Verb
und? (present infinitive und?re, perfect active und?v?, supine und?tum); first conjugation
- I rise in waves.
- I overflow with, abound in.
- I wave, undulate.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- abund?
- redund?
Descendants
- Aromanian: undedz, undari
- ? English: undate
- Italian: ondare
- Portuguese: undar
- Romanian: unda, undare
- Spanish: ondear
References
- undo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- undo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- undo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- redound in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Lindu
Noun
undo
- flattery
undo From the web:
- what undoes a log
- what undo means
- what undoes super glue
- what undoes ln
- what undoes a square root
- what undoes e
- what undoes cosine
- what undoes sine
unpreach
English
Etymology
un- +? preach
Verb
unpreach (third-person singular simple present unpreaches, present participle unpreaching, simple past and past participle unpreached)
- (transitive) To undo or overthrow by preaching; to recant (something preached before).
- 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! Chapter 18
- to unpreach in one minute all that he had been preaching his life-long
- 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! Chapter 18
unpreach From the web:
- what u preach
- what does.preach mean
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