English Online Dictionary. What means undo? What does undo mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /ʌnˈduː/
- Rhymes: -uː
- Homophone: undue (yod-dropping)
Etymology 1
From Middle English undōn, from Old English ondōn, from Proto-West Germanic *andadōn (“to undo”), equivalent to un- + do. Cognate with West Frisian ûndwaan, ûntdwaan (“to undo; rid”), Dutch ontdoen (“to undo”).
Verb
undo (third-person singular simple present undoes, present participle undoing, simple past undid, past participle undone) (transitive)
- To reverse the effects of an action.
- To unfasten.
- (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
Synonyms
- (reverse effects): cancel, reverse
- (unfasten): unbuckle, unbutton, untie, unzip
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “reverse effects”): redo
- (antonym(s) of “unfasten”): do up, button, button up, tie up, zip, zip up,
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Welsh: andwyo
Translations
Noun
undo (plural undos)
- (computing) An operation that reverses a previous action.
Translations
Etymology 2
Adjective
undo
- Misspelling of undue.
Further reading
- undo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Anagrams
- udon
Latin
Etymology
From unda (“a wave”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈun.doː/, [ˈʊn̪d̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈun.do/, [ˈun̪d̪o]
Verb
undō (present infinitive undāre, perfect active undāvī, supine undātum); first conjugation
- to rise in waves
- to overflow with, abound in
- to wave, undulate
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: undedz, undari
- → English: undate
- Italian: ondare
- Portuguese: undar
- Romanian: unda, undare
- Spanish: ondear
References
- “undo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “undo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- undo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- “redound”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Lindu
Noun
undo
- flattery