undoing

Meanings

Noun

• The act of loosening or unfastening
• Ruin; defeat, that which causes defeat or ruin.
• Annulment; reversal

Verb

• Present participle of undo

Origin

• From Middle English undoinge, undoynge, ondoynge; equivalent to undo + -ing.
• From Middle English undoynge, undoand, from Old English undōnde, from Proto-Germanic *andadōndz, present participle of *andadōną. Cognate with Dutch ontdoend.