undo
/ʌnˈduː/ verb B1- To reverse the effects of an action. · Fortunately, we can undo most of the damage to the system by the war.· What's done can't be undone.
- To unfasten. · Could you undo my buckle for me?
- To unfasten the clothing of (a person).
- To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
He/she/it undoes · Past undid · Past participle undone · -ing form undoing
Verb forms
- Base form
- undo
- He/she/it
- undoes
- Past
- undid
- Past participle
- undone
- -ing form
- undoing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
One of them picked up an axe that lay upon the path, and said, “I have found an axe.” “Nay, my friend,” replied the other, “do not say ‘I,’ but ‘We’ have found an axe.” They had not gone far before they saw the owner of the axe pursuing them, and he who had picked up the axe said, “We are undone.” “Nay,” replied the other, “keep to your first mode of speech, my friend; what you thought right then, think right now.
Say ‘I,’ not ‘We’ are undone.”
Should it miscarry, you are undone.
the next word is ‘pig’s-bristles.’ We are undone, my good Watson!
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