undone
English
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[edit]- IPA(key): /ʌnˈdʌn/
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- Rhymes: -ʌn
- Hyphenation: un‧done
Etymology 1
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Adjective
[edit]undone (not comparable)
- Not done.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- Even so, it was found necessary to leave certain tasks undone.
Translations
[edit]Not done
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English undon, from Old English ondōn, from Proto-Germanic *andadōnaz, past participle of *andadōną (“to undo”), equivalent to undo + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Dutch ontdaan (“stripped, undone, upset”).
Adjective
[edit]undone (not comparable)
- Not fastened.
- Your flies are undone.
- Ruined; brought to nought.
- Synonyms: beaten, vanquished, worsted; see also Thesaurus:defeated
- Woe is me, for I am utterly undone!
- 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:
- Your hopes are murdered and undone.
Translations
[edit]unfastened
Verb
[edit]undone
- past participle of undo
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