- present participle of undo.
undoing
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He fears a bus lane may be its undoing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"I think that would absolutely go a long way to… undoing some of the disdain towards the water companies and get people on board to help look after our water resources."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
And in its zeal to purge the newsroom of dissent, CBS and Weiss may have inadvertently triggered the creation of their most dangerous future competitor — and accidentally set the stage for its own undoing.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
“They really don’t get credit for doing something bad and then undoing it,” U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
This, unfortunately, proved his undoing, for one day he was visited by the sons of Othere, the man who discovered the North Cape.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
The bills follow other subtle undoings that opponents have linked to prioritizing energy over conservation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2018
This novel ends where Shakespeare's Hamlet begins--after Act I, Scene 2, to be precise--and fills in the story of what the dramatis personae might have been up to before their tragic undoings at Elsinore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Worldly doings and undoings on and around a posh golf course.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the production's inspired touches is to punctuate the private doings and undoings of the characters with snatches of contemporaneous news footage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides, our own undoings lies upon't, Were there no other cause, I do not see, Why you should go: If I should say you should not.
From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb by Francis Beaumont
