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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English undōn, from Old English ondōn, from Proto-West Germanic *andadōn (“to undo”), equivalent to un- + do. Cognate with West Frisian ûndwaan, ûntdwaan (“to undo; rid”), Dutch ontdoen (“to undo”).
Verb
undo (third-person singular simple present undoes, present participle undoing, simple past undid, past participle undone) (transitive)
- To reverse the effects of an action.
Fortunately, we can undo most of the damage to the system by the war.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 4:Pro. […] it was a torment / To lay vpon the damn'd, which Sycorax / Could not againe vndoe ; it was mine Art, / When I arriu'd, and heard thee, that made gape / The Pyne, and let thee out.
2011 October 15, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:But Wigan undid their good work by conceding an avoidable second goal deep into first-half injury time.
2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera, Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 2019-04-06:And judging by how well the progressive and youth-favoured party did, many observers suspect this latest round of legal charges are a response to Future Forward's commitment to undo the legacy of military rule and undertake democratic reforms.
- To unfasten.
Could you undo my buckle for me?
- (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
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Translations
to reverse
- Aragonese: desfer
- Aromanian: disfac
- Asturian: desfacer
- Bulgarian: отменям (bg) (otmenjam), връщам обратно (vrǎštam obratno)
- Catalan: desfer (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 復原/复原 (zh) (fùyuán), 重做 (chóngzuò)
- Czech: odčinit, navrátit
- Dutch: ongedaan maken, tenietdoen (nl), ontdoen (nl)
- Esperanto: malfari
- Finnish: kumota (fi)
- French: annuler (fr), défaire (fr)
- Galician: desfacer (gl)
- Georgian: გაუქმება (gaukmeba), შებრუნება (šebruneba), ანულირება (anulireba)
- German: rückgängig machen, ungeschehen machen
- Hindi: उधेड़ना (hi) (udheṛnā)
- Hungarian: visszavon (hu), visszaállít (hu), helyreállít (hu), jóvátesz (hu), visszacsinál (hu), meg nem történtté tesz
- Italian: annullare (it), disfare (it)
- Japanese: 戻す (ja) (もどす, modosu), 取り消す (ja) (とりけす, torikesu)
- Latin: abrogo, destruo (la)
- Maori: whakakore
- Norwegian: rette opp, angre (no)
- Portuguese: desfazer (pt)
- Rapa Nui: kume
- Romanian: desface (ro)
- Russian: отменя́ть (ru) impf (otmenjátʹ), отмени́ть (ru) pf (otmenítʹ), возвраща́ть (ru) impf (vozvraščátʹ), верну́ть (ru) pf (vernútʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: neo-dhèan
- Serbo-Croatian: opovrgnuti (sh), revertirati
- Sindhi: اڻڪرڻ (sd)
- Spanish: deshacer (es), revertir (es)
- Swedish: ångra (sv) (only when the person doing something is undoing own actions)
- Turkish: geri almak (tr)
- Vietnamese: hoàn tác
- Welsh: dad-wneud (cy)
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to unfasten
- Aromanian: disfac
- Basque: askatu
- Bulgarian: отварям (bg) (otvarjam), развързвам (bg) (razvǎrzvam)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 解開/解开 (zh) (jiěkāi)
- Dutch: losmaken (nl)
- Faroese: loysa
- Finnish: avata (fi), irrottaa (fi)
- French: défaire (fr), délier (fr)
- Georgian: გახსნა (gaxsna), შეხსნა (šexsna)
- German: aufmachen (de), öffnen (de), losmachen (de), lösen (de), abschnallen
- Hungarian: kinyit (hu), kigombol (hu), kikapcsol (hu), kiköt (hu), kifűz (hu), kibont (hu), kicsatol (hu), kiold (hu)
- Irish: scaoil
- Italian: slacciare (it)
- Japanese: はずす (ja) (hazusu), ほどく (ja) (hodoku), 解く (ja) (とく, toku)
- Maori: wete, wetewete, wewete, whakamatara, maheno
- Norwegian: løsne (no)
- Portuguese: desatar (pt)
- Romanian: desface (ro)
- Russian: расстёгивать (ru) impf (rasstjógivatʹ), расстегну́ть (ru) pf (rasstegnútʹ), развя́зывать (ru) impf (razvjázyvatʹ), развяза́ть (ru) pf (razvjazátʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: fuasgail
- Serbo-Croatian: razvezati (sh) (what is tied), raskopčati (sh) (what is buttoned up) (what is buttoned up)
- Spanish: desatar (es)
- Turkish: çözmek (tr)
- Welsh: datod (cy)
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Noun
undo (plural undos)
- (computing) An operation that reverses a previous action.
- How many undos does this program support?
Translations
an operation that reverses a previous action
Etymology 2
Adjective
undo
- Misspelling of undue.
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From unda (“a wave”).
Pronunciation
Verb
undō (present infinitive undāre, perfect active undāvī, supine undātum); first conjugation
- to rise in waves
- to overflow with, abound in
- to wave, undulate
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References
- “undo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “undo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- undo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a thing finds credence, is credible: aliquid fidem habet (vid. also fides under sect. VII., History)
- “redound”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Lindu
Noun
undo
- flattery