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- Dictionaryundone/ʌnˈdʌn/
adjective
- 1. not tied or fastened: "the top few buttons of his shirt were undone"
- 2. not done or finished: "he had left his homework undone" Similar Opposite
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Dec 7, 2010 · If it comes undone, they'll be able to see what is inside. In the figurative sense, it means that something has either not gone as planned, or has failed in some way. E.g. a plan can come undone meaning it hasn't worked as expected. A person can come undone meaning that they have lost their composure or self-control.
Mar 5, 2021 · The OALD, as the Merriam-Webster dictionary does not take this meaning into account, but the SOED does (reversed, annuled). (OALD undone adjective [not usually before noun] 1/ (especially of clothing) not fastened or tied 2/ (especially of work) not finished 3/ (old use) (of a person) defeated and without any hope for the future. The SOED lists ...
Feb 5, 2016 · 1. @FumbleFingers Yeah, those damn song lyrics. We wouldn't want anyone to learn what come undone means. – deadrat. Feb 5, 2016 at 4:36. 1. Well I thought that even in a song lyric an expression wouldn't lose its meaning...
Sep 6, 2017 · Apparently, when a gentleman has forgotten to zip his pants, in the US they remind him thusly. Your fly is open. Dictionary.com lists the noun fly meaning: 20. a strip of material sewn along one edge of a garment opening for concealing buttons, zippers, or other fasteners. But in the UK a trouser zipper is also called flies, Your flies are open.
Mar 26, 2011 · The doers undone’ is a line from the famous ‘Macbeth.’ But still I don’t understand what the writer wants to say by quoting this particular line. For instance, If I use a well-known line from a Kabuki play in the catch phrase of play review, it doesn’t make any sense as a punch line that crystallizes my whole view as a drama critic.
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Feb 2, 2022 · According to Wiktionary, WordSense and ABSP (Scrabble) — the plural of the word undo is undos. Dictionary.com (based on the Random House dictionary), Merriam-Webster thesaurus, Britannica, and Wiktionary also have "redos" as the plural of "redo (noun)", meaning something done over again, so that should be used as a model. Hello, Zicoo.
Apr 2, 2014 · 2. Oxford Dictionary only lists "in its entirety", as does Cambridge (I checked for both US and UK English). Moreover, "in its entirety" is significantly more common: in the Corpus of Contemporary American English, "in entirety" appears 11 times, compared to the 576 times that "in its entirety" appears. One possible reason for this is that "in ...
Oct 14, 2016 · Wiktionary says, of "no good deed goes unpunished":. Beneficial actions often go unappreciated or are met with outright hostility.
Oct 30, 2014 · 8. The hair is what came undone. In this case "undone" is the past participle of "undo". This is the opposite of "do", in the sense of "doing one's hair", meaning to style one's hair. Therefore, the listener is being invited to consider what activities might cause one's hair to become messy after they've taken the time to style it...
