(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.
Unlock
Definition:
(v. t.) To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.
(v. t.) To open, in general; to lay open; to undo.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(2) Our hypothesis is that phase unlocking may be one of the induction mechanisms of spike-burst activity.
(3) Customers who sign up to the Tesco Mobile Xtras programme will see an extra full-screen ad roughly every third time they unlock their phone.
(4) With Christian Eriksen peripheral on the left and Aaron Lennon well policed, the responsibility to unlock Everton came to rest on Dembélé.
(5) Low-level finite state (locked-unlocked) control is compared with open-loop stimulation of the knee extensor muscles in functional electrical stimulation (FES) induced paraplegic standing.
(6) Working across every constituency in the country, social workers are building community capacity and unlocking people’s potential.
(7) But the incident has been a public relations disaster, particularly because the management initially failed to explain how the animal was able to escape; the answer, it emerges, was two unlocked doors.
(8) Apple was asked to comment on this ability to unlock the iPhone tethering facility for free.
(9) These results are comparable with, or better than, those obtained with other forms of fixation, including immobilization with a cast, unlocked intramedullary nailing, and external fixation.
(10) To unlock this situation, the author proposes an explorative methodology for case-history making that focuses on the economic aspect of sinistrosis.
(11) Introduce 'new homes zones' But we need also to unlock land for development, empowering those who want to build high-quality homes quickly with the means to do so.
(12) Freeman's dependable, capable Watson unlocks this modern Holmes, a man who now describes himself as "a high-functioning sociopath".
(13) George Osborne, the chancellor, whose Tatton constituency lies on the expected route, is a crucial proponent in unlocking the £33bn spend.
(14) It will really have to rely on the fingerprint sensing being a compelling feature (which, in fairness, it probably will be: securing your smartphone is essential, and this is a good solution to unlocking it).
(15) This induced conformation is referred to as "locked" and the initial conformation as "unlocked".
(16) The 12% increase in comparable sales demonstrates our teams' success in unlocking the benefits of these investments, as we continue to concentrate on the things we can control in an uncertain external environment."
(17) Do you use it to unlock your phone and make iTunes Store purchases?
(18) Speaking after the meeting in Brussels, he said it was too early to make a decision on unlocking the next tranche of Greece’s €86bn (£73bn) bailout, but he hoped agreement on reforms would make a disbursal of funds possible.
(19) Wrestling with the worst crisis in the common currency's 11 years and accused of fiddling for three months while Greece went up in flames, Angela Merkel of Germany, Nicolas Sarkozy of France and other European leaders are to meet in Brussels on May 10 to unlock tens of billions of euros for Athens to put out the fire.
(20) The tide is turning, and the white paper will help unlock the floodgates of change.