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as in exhausted
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as in paralyzed
to deprive of courage or confidence
the sudden shriek undid the campers
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as in unraveled
to disengage the knotted parts of
undo a tangled shoelace
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as in distracted
to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy
the mere mention of the home invasion still had the power to undo her
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Recent Examples of undone
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
Leo’s apology is a start, but much is left undone.
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Laura Washington,
Mercury News,
9 June 2026
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
Because progress can be undone.
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Meredith Moore,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
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Adjective
And, of course, that left undone, unfinished, undone.
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David Frum,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
Leo’s apology is a start, but much is left undone.
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Laura Washington,
Mercury News,
9 June 2026
Verb
And now Starmer himself is out less than two years into a five-year mandate, his Labour government undone by a local-election drubbing and a right-wing populist rise that has scrambled the country’s two-party map.
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Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
Because progress can be undone.
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Meredith Moore,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undone
Adjective
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While Salomon sneakers are, in part, known for their shoelaces that never come untied, this pair doesn’t have any at all.
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Grandaddy, unbeaten and untied and still heavyweight champion of the college football world.
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But Eustaquio moved — likely exhausted — in union with his team towards South Africa’s box.
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Back-to-back overnights left Greenwald exhausted and depressed.
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The artisanal-fishing industry had been all but paralyzed by high gas prices since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz; a large number of vessels were anchored close to shore.
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The 11-year-old was diagnosed with an aggressive spinal tumor at the age of three and is paralyzed from the waist down.
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Heard and Depp married in February 2015, but their relationship quickly unraveled.
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By dissolving the barrier between art and life and emphasizing the role of the viewer, Duchamp unraveled art’s claim to special status.
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Getting distracted by a late-stage bombshell would feel disingenuous at this point.
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My will is scattered, directed toward many contradictory things, and easily distracted.
Adjective
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With Worthy back, the Chiefs offense suddenly seems unbound as well.
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Ideas flow when the body is occupied but the mind is unbound.
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The China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station, the Navy’s largest base for developing and testing weapons of warfare, suffered billions of dollars in damage, and the fact that the second quake was scarier than the first unnerved many Californians.
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David Rubenstein, the son of a Baltimore postal worker, was frustrated in a Washington law firm when he was both inspired by a wildly successful leveraged buyout and unnerved by a book that claimed the odds of successfully starting a company plummets after 37.
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But her outbursts frightened the children too.
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What frightened me most was what might happen to my children.
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“Undone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undone. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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