- present participle of undo.
undoing
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Instead of taking pleasure in the Witch’s undoing, Sophie tenderly cares for her.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
A spell has erased Peter Parker from the world’s memory — the price of undoing the public exposure of his identity — leaving him a stranger to his best friend, Ned, and to MJ.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Think of it as undoing all the bad things that sitting does.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
The rise of a man known as “The King of the North” could finally be his undoing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
She turned her attention to Glerk, analyzing the structure of the spell that had enrabbited him, undoing it bit by bit.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
The bills follow other subtle undoings that opponents have linked to prioritizing energy over conservation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2018
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
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
All his thoughts, with those of his auditors, were upon Madonna of the Peach-Tree, whom there was nothing, absolutely nothing, to connect with Fra Battista, his doings and undoings.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
