undoing
/ʌnˈduːɪŋ/ noun
Also a form of undo
Forms undoings
- noun The act of loosening or unfastening
- noun Ruin; defeat, (also) that which causes defeat or ruin. “In the end, his jealousy was his undoing.”
- noun Annulment; reversal
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Etymology
From Middle English undoinge, undoynge, ondoynge; equivalent to undo + -ing.
From Middle English undoynge, undoand, from Old English undōnde (“undoing”), from Proto-Germanic *andadōndz, present participle of *andadōną (“to undo”). Cognate with Dutch ontdoend (“undoing”).
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “undoing”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details