(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.
Unto
Definition:
(prep.) To; -- now used only in antiquated, formal, or scriptural style. See To.
(prep.) Until; till.
(conj.) Until; till.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their brief was to eradicate cross-border raids by Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas), yet many felt the overzealous Sharon was becoming a law unto himself.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The City of London is a world unto itself.
(3) Once more unto the valley of the kings, then, as another Silicon monopolist issues a decree, in this case to the indescribably junior entity that is Norway.
(4) Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
(5) And be open unto themselves as to how they behaved and why they behaved as they did, and to understand – not to blame them – but to understand, and to show greater courage the next time round.
(6) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
(7) I would like to see, over time, an understanding by all people and cultures, and religions, that there should be separation of church and state, that there is a sense of rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.
(8) There were occasional bursts of vivacity: the comment, when the Tory government economised on a booster station for the BBC World Service, that "Nation shall murmur unto nation"; shrewd opposition to entry into the ERM "at an unsustainable rate"; and an early warning to Nigel Lawson, in 1988, of the looming economic crisis.
(9) Still the Vatican turns a blind eye to this most repugnant and damaging of all sexual practices, the suffering little children whose priests come unto them.
(10) Members are required to "keep secret all matters committed and revealed unto you or that shall be treated secretly in council".
(11) Far from ignoring the white working class during this election, they were written about so extensively by nervously placatory liberal journalists that these articles became a genre unto themselves, satirised perfectly by Benjamin Hart last week (“I couldn’t help but notice that people in Bleaksville are angry … I wanted to hear more but Ed explained that David Brooks had scheduled an interview with him to discuss whether he ate dinner with his family every night, and what it means for America.”) So here’s an alternative take: we’ve heard enough of white rage now.
(12) Health,” reckons Friel, “remains a law unto itself.” Less pronounced special needs that lie outside formally specified provisions are being moved out of School Action and School Action Plus programmes into a system called SEN Support.
(13) Even when "which" isn't mandatory, great writers have been using it for centuries, as in the King James Bible's "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's" and Franklin Roosevelt's "a day which will live in infamy".
(14) What is new – and what, surely, ought to have given Mr Hunt pause for thought – is the emerging evidence that the company has been run as a law unto itself.
(15) Why you should listen : “Answer not a fool according to his folly,” it says in Proverbs, “lest thou also be like unto him.” Jones’s appearance on Rogan’s show is a cautionary tale.
(16) He lived on and off in Italy for some years, unearthing the lives of his father’s family in Calabria, which became a book: Unto the Sons .
(17) Every checkpoint is a law unto itself,” he mused, also unconvincingly upbeat about the future.
(18) Great power relations conducted through official and unofficial channels in foreign capitals are a world unto themselves.
(19) Arterial blood samples were taken 3 minutes after spinal injection then every 15 minutes unto 90 minutes after the first sampling.
(20) The first thing, Thiele – a Catholic – thought, was the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.