What's the difference between undoing and undying?

Undoing


Definition:

  • (n.) The reversal of what has been done.
  • (n.) Ruin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We cannot undo the damage it ha€™s 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.

Undying


Definition:

  • (a.) Not dying; imperishable; unending; immortal; as, the undying souls of men.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile, efforts to keep Microsoft at the cutting edge of the digital age have not always inspired the undying love of Microsoft shareholders.
  • (2) Both dyed and undyed sutures were consistently better than surgical gut with respect to pliability, strength, ease of passage, ease of tying, fraying, knot security, and overall handling.
  • (3) Wild Words of Sport (@WWofSport) @Simon_Burnton Nadal, with his caveman grunting, his undie-picking, is a visceral beast.
  • (4) No, I’m really not pleased to see you The Thunderwear holster … all the comfort of having a gun in your undies.
  • (5) For Max Hastings, as for Gove, the looming threat of a German Europe justified Britain's cause in the first world war and gives undying lustre to our boys' sacrifice in the trenches.
  • (6) In Bowman's layer and the adjacent stroma, there was often an abrupt transition from fluorescent to new, undyed connective tissue.
  • (7) The ones who turn up at your conferences, sit on your councils and vote undying resistance to anything the Department of Health – under any government, Labour or coalition – proposes.
  • (8) I don't believe I've ever owned a pair of red undies, let alone worn any.
  • (9) Pink undies drying in the cell of a teenager in a dirty prison, feminine and delicate like those of my teenage nieces.
  • (10) This study evaluates the biocompatibility of dyed and undyed transparent PMMA lens haptics.
  • (11) His decisive break with Christianity and subsequent undying fealty to the Islamic empire clearly then occurred at the White House Easter prayer breakfast, where he welcomed the esteemed guests as his " brothers and sisters in Christ ".
  • (12) Even Gerard Butler, who at one point seemed primed to take over from Bruce Willis as Hollywood's go-to tough guy, has found it easier to make a name for himself outside the action genre, in the undyingly star-focused world of romantic comedy.
  • (13) At the risk of a deluge of emails, I'd even contend that the Quo's undying popularity shines penetrating light on our national character.
  • (14) I’m an activist, not an alpha male, and I place myself under the orders of the majority.” Members of his close-knit team of 60 people, who have mostly worked out of cramped offices with curling carpets and broken doorbells, often profess undying loyalty.
  • (15) Orwell, to his undying credit, realised that the enemy was totalitarianism in its totality.
  • (16) The classic thing: the last refuge of the undying romantic.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Perry’s World Leaders Attend The Marriage Of Alan Measles And Claire Perry, 2009.
  • (17) Swiss textile giant Schoeller has developed a fabric that administers drugs to the surface of your skin over time, and thinks the best place to put it is in your undies – as those are the garments you’re least likely to forget to put on.
  • (18) Friends are, in fact only too eager to point out Drake’s undying enthusiasm for most things, principally music, during his two years at Cambridge, his own musical progress being most spirited.
  • (19) It was found that non-target cells (red rhodamine fluorescence) segregated from the undyed target cells, forming discrete areas containing the two cell types.
  • (20) They come to worship at the Goddess of Fire temple, where a flame of natural gas flickers undyingly next to a stream of water.

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