Undo

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Undo - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

UNDO, v.t. pret. undid; pp. undone.

1. To reverse what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught any transaction. We can undo many kinds of work; but we cannot undo crimes, errors or faults.

Tomorrow ere the setting sun, she'd all undo what she had done.

2. To loose; to open; to take to pieces; to unravel; to unfasten; to untie; as, to undo a knot.

3. To ruin; to bring to poverty; to impoverish. Many are undone by unavoidable losses; but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence.

4. To ruin, in a moral sense; to bring to everlasting destruction and misery.

5. To ruin in reputation.

Source of the article

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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