Undone
[ʌn'dʌn]
Definition
(adj.) not done; 'the work could be done or undone and nobody cared' .
(adj.) not fastened or tied or secured; 'her blouse had come undone at the neck'; 'his shoelaces were undone' .
Edited by Barton--From WordNet
Definition
(-) p. p. of Undo.
(a.) Not done or performed; neglected.
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Examples
- I am simply blighted--like a damaged ear of corn--the business is done and can't be undone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Nothing has been left undone, my dear sir--nothing whatever. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You left nothing undone. Jane Austen. Emma.
- This proved to be a most knotty and intricate puzzle--tricky and evasive--always leading on and promising something, and at the last slipping away leaving the work undone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Certainly a gray mist swirled before my eyes, and when it cleared I found my collar-ends undone and the tingling after-taste of brandy upon my lips. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- These things ought ye to have done, and not to have left the others undone. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But what's done can't be undone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The operations of the mint were, upon this account, somewhat like the web of Penelope; the work that was done in the day was undone in the night. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He wanted all the settlement of 1871 undone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Much of that work was sound and still endures, much was experimental and has been undone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Speed: Sir, we are undone! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Oh, how he wished that night's work undone! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I would I had not trusted Malkin to his keeping, for, crippled as I am with the cold rheum, I am undone if aught but good befalls her. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- What was done for the blood-money must be thoroughly undone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We could no longer say, This we will do, and this we will leave undone. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I am very sorry to have done a man wrong, particularly when it can't be undone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I want her mine, that I may have a right to take her to the free States, and give her her liberty, that all I am trying to do be not undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Nothing's done that can't be undone. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And what's done cannot be undone. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Both Ada and I urged, in reply, not only that it was decidedly worth-while to undo what had been done, but that it must be undone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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