undoing
uhn dooh ing
- n an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done)
- n loosening the ties that fasten something; the untying is easy"
- v cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
- v deprive of certain characteristics
- v cause the ruin or downfall of
- v cause to become loose
- v remove the outer cover or wrapping of
- The taking of Ben Ownby, 13, proved to be Devlin's undoing.
- Feeney's undoing was his hard-line reading of the formula, first proposed by Church Fathers Origen and Cyprian in the 3rd century, that "outside the church there is no salvation.
- While Haig sees his failure to deliver a settlement in the Falklands crisis as his Waterloo, others have pointed to the Lebanon crisis of June 1982 as his undoing.