undone

But, he worries the devastating effects of lead from Atlas may have inflicted a lasting harm to generations of children that cannot be undone.

Just because something looks and feels like a highbrow, more considerate true crime offering doesn’t mean that it can’t be undone by the genre’s same trappings.

Sir Stephen is "too tall" for her to see his eyes and suss out his motives, she says - although she can tell you if his flies are undone.

In time, he is undone by his utter lack of self-knowledge.

It may be worth adding bank CEOs to the list of those whose predictions can be undone by things that happen unexpectedly, although that hasn’t stopped them from making them.