(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.
Unwrap
Definition:
(v. t.) To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
Example Sentences:
(1) The retrieval is done by using a bidimensional Gerchberg-Saxton phase-retrieval algorithm joined to an iterative phase-unwrapping algorithm.
(2) Group II fascial wrap grafts demonstrated variable endothelial coverage in the wrapped area (means = 48%) that was consistently less than in adjacent unwrapped portions (means = 62%), and significantly less than vein wrap sections of group I animals (P less than 0.04).
(3) Dave Price, the head of BBC iPlayer, said: "BBC iPlayer had a record-breaking festive period, with performance driven by new mobiles and tablets unwrapped on Christmas Day, and it looks like these devices have yet to be put down."
(4) Unwrapping the layers of spin from his original remarks and what EngskovWhat he actually pledged is way more modest.
(5) Recently, we adopted open-unwrapping and aortic button technique.
(6) Ten wrapped and 10 unwrapped pieces of methylmethacrylate were implanted in dogs, and were removed at intervals of 2, 4, 8, 11 and 16 weeks.
(7) Noting the number of times – 16 – a reporter was forced to write “unintelligible” in the transcript of Trump’s infamous interview with AP, Meyers was struck that “Trump’s answers are literally just mad libs now.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon wished first lady Melania Trump a happy birthday: “She plans to celebrate with her loved ones – and Donald.” The couple planned to celebrate as they always do: “Making sure Donald has something to unwrap too so he doesn’t feel left out.” Fallon also mentioned former presidential candidate Chris Christie giving Trump a B grade on his first 100 days, as well as an A on immigration, and a C on healthcare.
(8) Modification of four epsilon-amino groups by buturic and succinic anhydrides and of three epsilon-amino groups by TNBS is found to increase the regidity of protein surrounding of heme, and modification of six epsilon-amino groups by TNBS results in more unwrapped enzyme structure as compared with its native molecule.
(9) Paracetamol increased the time below 37.2 degrees C in four hours by 109 (95% confidence interval 74 to 145) minutes compared with unwrapping; warm sponging caused the fastest reduction in temperature.
(10) A new two-dimensional phase unwrapping algorithm is presented, along with simulation results.
(11) The rumors are that Joseph is indeed going to be up front, as Sigi Schmid does the equivalent of unwrapping his tightly wound scarf and swinging it round his head yelling, “COME ON THEN!
(12) Samples were unwrapped at intervals (up to the end of the usual maximum shelf-life for the food) and analysed for their glycol content.
(13) Insulin derived from unwrapped pancreata was found to comprise two peaks on high-pressure liquid chromatography and that from wrapped pancreata a single peak.
(14) Children across the country will unwrap chocolate coin bags that are 15g lighter than last year, though their parents (or Santa) will have paid the same £1 for them – making them 18% more expensive.
(15) He wouldn't use email and said he'd never unwrapped the computer in his office.
(16) The only food that was common to all the laboratory-confirmed cases was bread, purchased either unwrapped or as rolls, sandwiches or filled rolls, and supplied either directly from one shop or indirectly through its subsidiary outlets.
(17) This phase needs to be unwrapped, which is complicated by the presence of noise and multiple objects of irregular shape.
(18) Abundant foam cells were found in the intima of unwrapped veins, whereas they were absent or rare in wrapped segments.
(19) It's almost worth trying it, just to see the look of sheer horror on the little darlings' faces when they unwrap that sticky, pointy thing and discover that, yes, you really have just wrapped up the garden sweepings.
(20) Then I unwrap my present and it is Pippa's tragic book?