Synonyms:
undoing
Meaning: an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done)
Usage examples
That was my undoing."
Farewell; you are guiltless, though you've been your own undoing."
'Why, he was undoing you when you woke up, which was very kind of him.
'The papers in Bardell and Pickwick,' replied Perker, undoing the knot with his teeth.
His machine certainly goes very fast, but too much wind will be the undoing of him, while it will only help us.
And if he can "defeat with great slaughter" his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.
The old woman stood thinking for a little: then she drew something from the folds of her dress, and, undoing a number of wrappings, brought out a tiny basket made of birch-bark.
The right means, and the only entirely satisfactory means, of escape from it is through the undoing of the error which brought it about--that is, through the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.
In such a district, as you would call it, some neighbours think that something ought to be done or undone: a new town-hall built; a clearance of inconvenient houses; or say a stone bridge substituted for some ugly old iron one,--there you have undoing and doing in one.
I helped them in emptying the cart, and placing in it some pillows for the wounded man to rest on; and it was only when the driver had mounted to his place, and was starting for the Surgery, that I bethought me of the strange power I possessed of undoing all this harm.