(v. t.) To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) We cannot undo the damage it has done to our air quality,” she said.
(2) I am not a Muslim but I see that the cover has been read as yet more provocation, even an undoing of the unity of the marches in Paris and other cities.
(3) Amid public outcry over the Bettencourt case, Sarkozy is now likely to be forced into a U-turn before the next election, undoing his tax reforms.
(4) His interventions over the next week - first with the miners then with his former army colleagues as hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Belgrade - would prove his ex-master's undoing.
(5) He told the chair, Alexis Jay: “We will never be able to undo the wrongdoing to these children.
(6) But the role opened my eyes to certain aspects of online gaming, such as harassment, abuse, threats and even stalking, and in many ways, it is an unhappy experience that I wish I could undo.
(7) With three weeks left to election day, the onus is on Obama to mount a strong comeback in Tuesday's Long Island debate to undo some of the damage caused by his dismal showing in the first of the presidential debates in Denver a fortnight ago.
(8) Obama won praise from world leaders for his promises to undo George Bush's environmental record, but there is growing scepticism abroad that Democrats will be able to overcome opposition in Congress and pass legislation that would put America on a path to cutting its carbon emissions.
(9) Arab regional governments – and even Iran – have belatedly seen their own storm clouds of extremism, but there is tremendous work required to undo what has been done.
(10) All efforts to undo environmental protections put in place by Obama, he said, would face lengthy and compulsory processes of consultation and review, as well as the strongest possible legal challenges at every turn.
(11) President-elect Trump will be able to undo the programs and cast them into the dustbin of history with equal speed and ease.
(12) Against the top sides England will leak goals, and that will ultimately be our undoing.
(13) He is praised for responding to a chemical attack in Syria with airstrikes, for generally projecting strength in foreign policy, for undoing Obama-era regulations on the environment and business, for installing a conservative supreme court justice, for protecting American jobs, and for not letting people tell him what he can’t do.
(14) Now Google might be required to undo the changes – although Auke Haagsma, a lawyer advising the lobby group Icomp , which is critical of Google's policies, said that would be like trying to "unscramble the egg".
(15) The projected increase in 2016 would return poverty rates to their 2007 levels, undoing nearly a decade’s worth of gains,” the report stated.
(16) Labour cannot afford to undo the coalition's cuts in the next government and must expect to be unpopular, one of the party's most senior finance spokesmen will say on Friday.
(17) Jeremy’s main fault was his unfortunate choice of friends – notably Peter Bessell MP, who jointly and foolishly entered into the long-running payoff drama with Scott which was his undoing.
(18) It has helped cement Qatar’s international reach and legitimacy, yet ironically has now played a part in its undoing.
(19) The former Irish prime minister John Bruton says it would “undo much of the work of the peace process and create huge questions over borders and labour market access”.
(20) The author examines how these negative affects, the accompanying victim role, and oppositional defiance enable angry adolescents to defend against depression and loss, to demand nurturance from others, to protect their precarious inner autonomy, and to undo their humiliation and shame by vengeance and reversal.
Unio
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of fresh-water mussels belonging to Unio and many allied genera.
Example Sentences:
(1) The known range of the Primates is extended down from the middle Paleocene to the early Paleocene and late Cretaceous by a new genus and two new species from Montana, Purgatorius unio and P. ceratops.
(2) Some experiments including glucose loading, insulin or antiinsulin serum injection and in vitro investigations on bivalve freshwater molluscs Anodonta cygnea and Unio pectorum were carried out.
(3) Fragmentary mandibles of Purgatorius unio Van Valen and Sloan from the Puercan (approximately early Paleocene), Garbani Locality, Montana, preserve associated postcanines.
(4) Etching with the glutaraldehyde-acetic acid solution reveals that the nacreous tablets in Mytilus, Nucula, and Unio are composed of four crystal individuals which occur in two structurally different pairs and which are probably cyclically twinned.
(5) This report uses the classification and nomenclature adopted by UICC (Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum) in 1965.
(6) Isolated, demembranated Unio gill cilia that have been activated and fixed for thin-section electron microscopy in the presence of 2 mM MgSO4 have 87% of their outer dynein arms attached to an adjacent B subfiber.
(7) A combination of hplc in the silver ion mode and gc-ms of picolinyl ester derivatives was used to identify the fatty acids in a fresh-water mussel, Unio tumidus, from the Danube in Bulgaria.
(8) In the less-soluble crystal pair of Nucula and Unio, the lamellar structure is absent.
(9) The osphradial organ has been studied in Lamellibranchia--Unio pectorum--by means of scanning and transmissive electron microscopy.
(10) Transepithelial ion transport was studied in three types of shell-facing mantle epithelia of the freshwater clam, Unio complanatus.
(11) Diethylnitrosamine (DENA) and dimethylnitrosamine (DMNA) dissolved in tank water induced neoplasms in bivalve mollusks Unio pictorum.
(12) Cadmium dosing experiments were carried out with the freshwater clam Unio pictorum in flow-through micro-streams in order to obtain additional information on the kinetics of cadmium accumulation and elimination.
(13) We studied the differentiation of the polarized site of sperm entrance in the egg of a freshwater bivalve, Unio elongatulus.
(14) The concentrations of toxic heavy metals (Hg, Cd, Cr, Cu, Zn and Pb) were measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometry in the gills of mussels (Unio pictorum L.) both living in Lake Balaton as well as transferred to various parts of tributaries of the Lake.
(15) A substance with insulin-like activity was obtained from visceral organs (excluding foot, gills and mantle) of the freshwater bivalve molluscs Unio pictorum and Anodonta cygnea.
(16) Insulin-like immunoreactivity can be localized in the cells of the mid-gut of Unio pictorum Lam.
(17) A study was made of changes in the heat resistance of spermatozoa during their incubation in Ringer's solution, using two species of frogs (Rana temporaria and R. ridibunda) and of bivalve molluscs (Unio crassus and U. tumidus).
(18) Cells of the Unio tumidus gill ciliated epithelium were exposed to a supraoptimal temperature of 40 degrees C for the period from 30 seconds till a complete cessation of ciliar beating.
(19) We studied the organization of the egg of a freshwater bivalve, Unio elongatulus.
(20) However, it has no influence on the vitality of the coelomocytes of Lumbricus terrestris and other lumbricides, nor on the hemocytes of the snail Helix pomatia, the mussels Anodonta cygnea and Unio tumidus, free cells of the turbellarian Euplanaria sp.