Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: undone
IPA transcription: [ənd'ʌn]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: undone
    Meaning: not done; "the work could be done or undone and nobody cared"
Usage examples
  • --But can the thing be undone, Yorick? said my father--for in my opinion, continued he, it cannot.
  • I am undone, am revenged, and have now no more business for life; let them take it from me when they will."
  • If you go near the suitors you will be undone to a certainty, for their pride and insolence reach the very heavens.
  • Lady Eversleigh's widowhood, Douglas Dale's lonely life, are the work of Victor Carrington--a work not to be undone upon this earth.
  • But all these considerations could not withhold him from performing a simple duty--a duty which no one could have blamed him for leaving undone.
  • The Princess was so scared she almost swooned away; but she felt about till she found the collar, and she had scarce undone it before the bear pulled his head off.
  • Half skipping, half hopping, and wholly undone with laughter and exertion, the three at last reached the place where, for six years, offerings had been made for the gift of the child who stood to these two for love.
  • Monotony, the cardinal and most common sin of the public speaker, is not a transgression--it is rather a sin of omission, for it consists in living up to the confession of the Prayer Book: "We have left undone those things we ought to have done."
  • 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.