| 单词 | undoing | 
| 释义 | undoingn.1ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > 			[noun]		 keyeOE undoinga1330 expositiona1340 declarationc1374 declaringc1374 clearingc1380 expoundingc1380 explanationa1382 interpretation1382 exploitingc1390 unfolding1483 explicating1531 explication1537 clearance?1548 elucidation1570 explaining1576 manifestation1576 untwining1577 illustration1581 untwisting1591 eviscerating1599 unclouding1601 enodation1603 opening1611 dilucidation1615 unsnarling1640 declarement1646 enucleation1650 illumination1656 dilucidatinga1660 luciferousness1665 clarifying1677 unravelling1713 disentanglement1751 exegesis1770 disambiguation1827 evisceration1831 keyword1848 clarificationa1866 exponence1880 exponency1880 straightening1900 demystification1964 a1330    Seuyn Sages 		(W.)	 2352  				He scholde..brenge a besaund to offring, And of his sweuen have undoing. 1382    Bible 		(Wycliffite, E.V.)	 Gen. xl. 8  				And Joseph seide to hem, Whether not of God is the vndoyng? c1425    Wyntoun Cron.  iv. xxvi. 2576  				Discripcion is wrytynge In til our propyr vndoynge. c1440    Promptorium Parvulorum 365/1  				Ondoynge, or expownynge, exposicio.  2.  The action of opening, unfastening, taking apart, loosening, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > 			[noun]		 undoinga1425 leesingc1440 loosing1482 dissolution1548 unlocking1568 unloosing1578 loosening1598 unbinding1598 untying1598 abstriction1650 unclenching1688 unclinching1688 apoptosis1749 unreeving1775 unloosening1793 a1425						 (a1400)						    Northern Pauline Epist. 		(1916)	 1 Cor. vii. 27  				If þou art bowndyn to a wif, seeke þou not vndoyng. c1440    Promptorium Parvulorum 365/1  				Ondoynge, or opynynge of schettellys, or sperellys, apercio. c1480						 (a1400)						    St. Thomas Apostle 477 in  W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. 		(1896)	 I. 142  				Of þat ee þe vndoynge Is of oure harte & vndirstandinge. 1486    Bk. St. Albans, Hunting e iii  				Now of thage & undoyng of the boore. 1598    J. Florio Worlde of Wordes  				Disciolare,..to put off hose and doublet without vndoing of points. 1613    S. Purchas Pilgrimage 484  				The heeles of their shooes are seldome pulled up, to saue labour of vndoing them. 1897    T. C. Allbutt et al.  Syst. Med. II. 912  				They all bring about a loosening of the frame~work of..nervous matter... The muscular system also..shows a like undoing.  3.   a.  The action of bringing to nought, destroying, or ruining; the fact of being so dealt with; the state of being undone; also (with a), an instance of this.Quotations under 		 (a) illustrate the active, those under		 (b) the passive, use of the word. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > 			[noun]		 end832 bale-sithea1000 wrakea1275 wonderc1275 destroyingc1300 destruction1340 contritionc1384 stroying1396 undoing1398 tininga1400 ruinc1425 fatec1430 fordoingc1450 perishing?1523 shipwreck1526 pernicion?1530 ruining1562 ruinating1587 defeasance1590 defeature1592 breakneck1598 ruination1599 defeat1600 doom1609 planet-striking1611 mismaking1615 rasurea1616 destructa1638 perition1640 interemption1656 smashing1821 degrowth1876 uncreation1884 creative destruction1927 (a)(b)c1400    Laud Troy Bk. 9125  				The Grekes were in point of vndoyng: Ne hadde ther comen ther riche kyng.1415    in  43rd Ann. Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. 		(1882)	 App.  i. 583 in  Parl. Papers (C. 3425) XXXVI. 1  				Hit has broghte me to yis shame and undoyng.1503–4    in  T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. 		(1839)	 p. cxiii  				Sir Roger Hastings is at the point of undoinge, because hee hath not money to pay where he ought to pay.1577    H. I. tr.  H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I.  ii. vi. sig. L.vi/1  				Neither doest thou read that the state..of the Israelites was euer at any time in greater daunger and peril of vndooing.1614    R. Tailor Hogge hath lost Pearle  iv  				How many country Clyents then might rest, Free from vndooing!a1716    R. South Serm. Several Occasions 		(1744)	 XI. 183  				He that ventures to be a surety for another, ventures an undoing for his sake. 1398    J. Trevisa tr.  Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum 		(Tollem. MS)	  x. iii  				It is þe leste party and laste in undoynge of the body. 1423    Rolls of Parl. IV. 198/2  				In hy udoyng to the Kynges Liege peple, and ayenis the ordenaunce and statuts. c1440    Promptorium Parvulorum 365/1  				Ondoynge, or dystroyynge, dissipacio, destruccio. 1508    Golagros & Gawane 		(Chepman & Myllar)	 sig. bii*v  				May nane do thame na deir with vndoyng. 1598    J. Florio Worlde of Wordes  				Sfaccimento, a defacing,..a defeasance, an vndooing. a1617    S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in  Wks. 		(1620)	 II. 358  				If thou leauest out the manner of doing, this is an vndoing to thy doing. 1673    J. Flavell Fountain of Life v. 59  				An undoing to him, in point of reputation.  b.  With possessive pronoun or genitive.Chiefly in passive sense. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > 			[noun]		 > state of being destroyed or ruined lossc897 losingc950 lore971 destructionc1330 forlesing1340 lostc1374 undoing1377 perditiona1382 shendc1400 decay1535 rack1599 undoneness1835 wanthrift1929 1377    W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 589  				Danyel of her vndoynge deuyned and seyde [etc.]. c1450    Jacob's Well 		(1900)	 127  				He took redyly þo ȝiftes, & þat was cause of his vndoyng. ?1478    W. Worcester in  Paston Lett. & Papers 		(2004)	 II. 424  				Now he ys vppon hys makyng by vertues gouernaunce or vndoyng to the contrarye. 1562    Bp. J. Pilkington Expos. Abdyas Pref. 16  				They saved your lyves and goods, not seeking your undoinge when it laye in their handes. 1609    P. Holland tr.  Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 353  				For, exposed he was..to the accesse of as manie as sought the undoing of others. 1679    J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned 		(1713)	  ii. i. 157  				His undoing was his making, and his misfortune proved his recovery. 1740    S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 154  				You see your Undoing has been long hatching. 1823    Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIV lxxxv. 157  				The latter works its own undoing. 1852    W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. ix. 225  				He was not the first that has..brought about his own undoing.  c.  In the phrase  to (one's) undoing. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > 			[phrase]		 > to destruction to (one's) undoing?1456 ?1456    J. Dory in  Paston Lett. & Papers 		(2004)	 II. 153  				Thei wuld put alle juparte vp-on me to myn vtter ondoyng. 1526    W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection  iii. sig. FFvii  				Lest he gette helpe of thy superiour, and so venquisshe the to thy vtter vndoyng. 1548    Hall's Vnion: Edward V f. vv  				Whiche..might abuse the name of his commaundemente to any of our vndoyng. 1621    H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords 		(1870)	 App. 138  				By that meanes all his creditors came upon him to his utter undoinge. 1641    W. Hakewill Libertie of Subj. 83  				That desperate motion that had been made against them to all their utter undoings. 1883    R. Whitelaw tr.  Sophocles Ajax 402  				But me the child of Zeus..plagues To my undoing.  4.  A cause of ruin or destruction. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > 			[noun]		 > one who or that which destroys > cause of lossc1386 undoing1390 ruinc1480 destruction1529 stumbling-block1535 fall1593 perdition1649 1390    J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 229  				Which was to him his undoinge. a1450    Knt. de la Tour 		(1906)	 60  				Adam..beleued his wyff, the whiche was dethe and vndoyng to hym and her, and to us all. 1576    in  A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth 		(1908)	 414  				It is an accion of accompt..like to be the vtter vndooing both of him and his. 1605    G. Chapman Al Fooles  ii. i. 197  				It had beene her undooing t' have hime seene. 1659    J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 420  				The Soldiers brake out into great disorders..; they were a terror to all, and an undoing to many. 1728    J. Gay Beggar's Opera  i. iv. 5  				Mary-bone and the Chocolate-houses are his undoing. 1818    W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in  Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 253  				She will tell the truth, if it should be the undoing of her. 1871    E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest 		(1875)	 III. xiii. 264  				The marriage of Emma had well nigh been the undoing of England.  5.   a.  The action of reversing, annulling, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > 			[noun]		 revoking1395 revocationc1400 cassationc1425 annulling1449 reclamationa1475 annulmenta1492 retractation1531 disannulling1533 abrogation1535 cancellation1535 retraction1536 extinguishment1537 undoing1540 abrenunciation1557 revocating1570 reversement1572 revokement1573 annihilation1579 revocatory1579 annullity1586 retroversion1587 rescission1594 recall1597 recision1606 disannulment1611 repeal1612 rasurea1616 cancelment1621 retractinga1624 cancelling1631 extinction1651 circumduction1726 cassing1844 recallment1845 cancel1884 1540    Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 30 §1  				The said judgementes..shall stande..without any reuersell or vndooyng of the same. 1611    R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues  				Rompement,..a cancelling, dissoluing, infringing, vndoing. 1650    N. Ward Discolliminium 16  				Our Trade of doing, and undoing, will be endlesse. 1866    J. H. Newman Let. to Pusey 36  				He..became man, that by what way the disobedience arising from the serpent had its beginning, by that way also it might have an undoing. 1891    J. Winsor Columbus ii. 50  				When Isabella decreed the undoing of Columbus's kidnapping exploits.  b.  Psychoanalysis. The obsessive repetition of a ritualistic action as if to undo some previous event, action, or attitude, or to signify that it never happened, usually a symptom of obsessional neurosis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > 			[noun]		 > morbid preoccupation > purposeless repetition of words or movements verbigeration1877 headbanging1886 head nodding1889 echopraxia1904 stereotypy1909 undoing1927 1927    L. P. Clark tr.  S. Freud Inhibition, Symptom & Anxiety vi. 42  				The precautionary measures are rational, the abolitions through undoing are irrational, magical in nature. 1960    L. E. Hinsie  & R. J. Campbell Psychiatric Dict. 		(ed. 3)	 770/2  				Expiatory acts, counter-compulsions, and some forms of compulsive ceremonials and counting compulsions are among the more frequent expressions of undoing. 1965    E. Rosen  & I. Gregory Abnormal Psychol. iv. 75/2  				A magical attempt to wipe out a real or fancied guilt is termed undoing. The individual engages in ritualistic behavior. 1972    Encycl. Psychol. III. 366/2  				Undoing, an (inner) defense mechanism which allows appeasement of a guilt feeling about a forbidden motive gratification that has already occurred. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2021). undoingn.2 rare.   The omission or neglect of doing; non-performance. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > 			[noun]		 > non-performance or non-execution non-performing1444 non-execution1473 non-performance1509 undoing1587 unperformance1608 abortion1610 failure1643 unperforming1645 inexecution1681 disfulfilment1823 insolvency1896 slippage1920 1587    Sir P. Sidney  & A. Golding tr.  P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. ii. 25  				To speake properly, we must not seeke whence commeth the doing of euill, but whence commeth the vndoing of good. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021). undoingadj.  Ruinous, destructive. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > 			[adjective]		 fellc1330 undone1340 ruinous?a1439 violablea1470 perniciousc1475 destructive1490 confusible1502 destroying1535 exitiable1548 ruinate1562 peremptory1567 wrackful1578 slaughterous1582 ruinating1595 ruining1605 corrumpent1607 wracksome1608 in suds1611 destructory1614 poisonousa1616 wrakefulc1625 predatory1626 predatorious1641 demolishing1648 untwined1649 undoing1654 destructionable1656 destructful1659 mortal1670 wreckinga1677 fatal1692 quadrumanous1704 interdestructive1805 annihilatory1825 demolitionary1834 ruinatious1845 consumptive1860 thunderous1874 1654    A. Tuckney Θανατοκτασία 33  				It is an undoing gain to break their arm by catching at a feather. 1681    J. Flavell Method of Grace xvi. 305  				Little do such men know how they..put an undoing cheat upon their own souls for ever. 1793    A. Seward Lett. 		(1811)	 III. 292  				The present fashion of head-dress..has an undoing influence upon youth and beauty. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < | 
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