Undone

Definition: Undone

Undone

Adjective

1. Not done; "the work could be done or undone and nobody cared".

2. Doomed to extinction.

3. Not fastened or tied or secured; "her blouse had come undone at the neck"; "his shoelaces were undone".

4. Thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence; "price programs became unstuck because little grain was available".

Date "undone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Undone

Synonyms: done for(p) (adj), ruined (adj), sunk (adj), unstuck (adj), washed-up (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Undone

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Adversity	Adjective: unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous, unprosperous; hoodooed; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need.
Failure	Lost, undone, ruined, broken; bankrupt; (not paying); played out; done up, done for; dead beat, ruined root and branch, flambe, knocked on the head; destroyed.
Hopelessness	Incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy; incorrigible; irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable; ruined, undone; immitigable.
Inaction	Adjective: not doing; Verb: not done; Verb: undone; passive; unoccupied, unemployed; out of employ, out of work; fallow; desaeuvre.
Noncompletion	Verb: not complete; leave unfinished; Adjective:, leave undone, drop, put down; neglect; let alone, let slip; lose sight of (forget).
Pain	Unfortunate; (hapless); to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded; fey.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Undone

English words defined with "undone": compulsion ♦ disjoined, drop ♦ fail, final, fixed, Fordone, frozen ♦ hitch ♦ indefeasible, irresistible impulse ♦ ladder, last, leave out ♦ miss ♦ neglect ♦ omit, overleap, overlook ♦ pretermit ♦ regretful, run ♦ separate, sorry ♦ Un-, uncoupled, unfasten, unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle. (references)

Specialty definitions using "undone": Disobey, Dying Sayings ♦ Hurlo-Thrumbo ♦ Neglect, Negligence ♦ PIE ♦ to ladder ♦ UNTWISTED. (references)

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Modern Usage: Undone

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The law has little to say on things left undone. (Vertigo; writing credit: Pierre Boileau; Thomas Narcejac) The centuries that divide me shall be undone! (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) A deed once done cannot be undone, but it might be mitigated. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) To leave it undone will cost us England! (The Private Life of Henry VIII; writing credit: Lajos Bir�; Arthur Wimperis)
Lyrics	Ahh, it'll take a little time, might take a little crime to come undone (Come Undone; performing artist: Duran Duran) Never to be undone (Caught In The Sun; performing artist: Course Of Nature) It's a long way down when all the knots we've tied have come undone (FOLLOW YOU DOWN; performing artist: Gin Blossoms) And I came undone (Mad Season; performing artist: Matchbox 20) My noisy love is coming undone (Enough of Me; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge)
Clever	He that lets the small things bind him leaves the great undone behind him. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Medium Undone (1965) Undone (2001)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Undone

Domain	Title
Books	She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) (reference) Fire in Afghanistan, 1914-1929: The First Opening to the West Undone by Tribal Ferocity Years Before the Taliban (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Woman Undone (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Glory Come Undone (reference) Undone (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Undone

Author	Quotation
Harriet Beecher Stowe	The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
John Dryden	Even victors are by victory undone.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	A wrongdoer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.
Pyrrhus	Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Undone

Author	Date	Quotation
Brown v. Board of Education	1954	To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Undone

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	You left nothing undone.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	What universal suffrage has done in its freedom and its sovereignty cannot be undone by the street.
Macbeth	William Shakespeare	What's done cannot be undone.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Undone

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		One hypothesis suggests that the apoE4 protein allows this structure to come undone in some way, leading to the neurofibrillary tangles. (references)
Political Economy	Canada	Although renewed federal social spending may halt the trend toward devolution, the shift in powers to the provinces already accomplished is unlikely to be undone in the short term. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command. His right to govern me is clear as day, My duty manifest to disobey; And if that fit observance e'er I shut May I and duty be alike undone. Israfel Brown
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Undone

"Undone" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 97.82% of the time. "Undone" is used about 229 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	97.82%	224	20,130
Adjective (general or positive)	2.18%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	229	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Undone

Expressions using "undone": be left undone ♦ come undone ♦ he is undone ♦ he left his work undone ♦ leave smth. undone. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Undone

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
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shes come undone	45	robbie undone williams	3
come robbie undone williams	43	shes come undone by wally lamb	3
come lyrics undone	37	clip come undone video	3
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come lyrics robbie undone williams	21	come robbie tab undone williams	3
duran duran come undone	14	come robbie undone	3
come duran duran lyrics undone	12	come tab undone	3
come mp3 undone	6	left undone	2
come undone movie	6	lyrics song sweater undone weezer	2
come lamb shes undone wally	6	song sweater undone	2
come midi robbie undone williams	5	come mp3 robbie undone williams	2
come robbie undone video williams	5	chord come undone	2
lyrics undone weezer	5	come download undone	2
lyrics undone	5	comes she undone	2
come undone video	4	come trailer undone	2
coming highwater lyrics rising undone	4	undone weezer	2
come lyrics shes undone	3	come midi undone	2
come duran undone	3	duran duran undone	2
come shes summary undone	3	tapping undone vein	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Undone

Language		Translations for "undone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i papërfunduar (incomplete, unaccomplished, unfinished), i pabërë (unacted, unripe), i fikur (dead, exanimate, exhausted, extinguished, switched off). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير مصنوع. (various references)

Bulgarian		разкопчан (unbuttoned), развързан (untied), разопакован, несвършен (imperfect), загинал (gone, perished), погубен (killed, ruined, sunk). (various references)

Chinese		解开 (Disengaged, Disengaging, unbuckle, Undid, undo, undoing, unfasten, unfastened, unfastening, unhook, Unhooked, unleash, Unlink, unravel, untangle, untangled, untangling, untie, untied, Untighten, untying, unwind, unwinding, unwound, unwrap, unwrapped), 未完成 (unfinished). (various references)

Czech		rozvázaný (untied), rozpáraný, rozepnutý (open, unbuttoned), rozšnìrovaný, otevřený (above board, avowed, barefaced, blunt, direct, Frank, free-spoken, honest, open, open-hearted, outspoken, overt, plainspoken, raw, straightforward, unclosed, unreserved), nehotový (incomplete). (various references)

Finnish		tekemätön. (various references)

French		non accompli, défait. (various references)

German		abgebunden. (various references)

Greek		κατεστραμένοσ, αγίνωτοσ (unripe), ατέλειωτοσ (endless, never ending, unaccomplished, unending, unfinished), αδιεκπεραίωτοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		tönkrement (dilapidated, down and out, he's dead and done for, it's all over with him, ruined, sunk, to be bust, to be busted, to be down). (various references)

Indonesian		terbengkalai (uncompleted). (various references)

Italian		sbottonato (unbuttoned), incompiuto (imperfect, uncompleted, unfinished, unfulfilled), disfatto. (various references)

Korean		원상태로 돌리�". (various references)

Manx		spooillit (despoiled, looted, pillaged, plundered, robbed), neuyeant (incomplete, unfinished), neeu (famished), millt, millit (blown, corrupted, defaced, ruined, spoil, spoiled), gyn jannoo (amorphous, unaccomplished, undischarged), feayslit (absolved, emancipated, freed, loose, loosened, redeemed, solved, unbound, uncoupled). (various references)

Pig Latin		oneunday

Portuguese		por fazer, perdido (abandoned, absent, absentee, devious, forfeit, forlorn, gracious, helpless, ill founded, ill-favoured, lost, missing, out of the way, perdu, strayed, waste), desfeito (untied), desatado (untied), desapertado, arruinado (broken down, impairer, kaput, ruinous, wrecked). (various references)

Romanian		ruinat (broke, broken down, dilapidated, done for, ruined, ruinous), distrus (broken, destroyed, dilapidated), desfãcut (detached, disconnected, free, loose, loosely, open, outspread). (various references)

Russian		расстегнутый (unbuttoned), развязанный (untied), несделанный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nesvršen (imperfect, imperfective, incomplete, unfinished), nerešen (drawn, pending, toss up, unresolved, unsolved), neponišten, neotvoren (unopened), neodrešen. (various references)

Spanish		pp de undo, deshecho (broken, crumple, dismantling, dumps, in pieces, leak, lost, unpaged). (various references)

Swedish		ångrade. (various references)

Turkish		yapılmamış (unaccomplished, unmade, unperformed), sökülmüş (ripped, unfixed, unravelled, unstitched), mahvolmuş (all up, banged up, bankrupt, damaged, gone, kaput, lost, perished, ruined, up the spout, washed up, wrecked), bitirilmemiş, açılmış (unfastened, unsealed), çözülmüş (solved, unfastened, unfixed). (various references)

Ukrainian		розв'язаний (untied), недороблений, занапащений (ruined). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Undone

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	dispereat, dispereatis, disperibunt, disperierunt, disperiet, disperiit, infecta, infectum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Undone

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 11, Verse 42
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	All ouai umin toiV farisaioiV oti apodekatoute to hduosmon kai to phganon kai pan lacanon kai parercesqe thn krisin kai thn agaphn tou qeou tauta edei poihsai kakeina mh afienai
Latin	405	Vulgate	Sed vae vobis Pharisaeis quia decimatis mentam et rutam et omne holus et praeteritis iudicium et caritatem Dei haec autem oportuit facere et illa non omittere
Old English	990	West Saxon	Ac wa eow fariseum ge þe teoþiað mintan and rudan. and ælce wyrte and ge forbugað dom and godes lufe; þas þing eow gebyrede to donne. and þa þing ne forlætan;
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	But wo to you, Farisees, that tithen mynte, and rue, and ech eerbe, and leeuen doom and the charite of God. For it bihofte to do these thingis, and not leeue tho.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	But wo be to you Pharises for ye tithe the mynt and rewe and all manner erbes and passe over iudgment and the love of God. These ought ye to have done and yet not to have left the other vndone.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others undone.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Undone

Language	Luke Chapter 11, Verse 42
Cebuano	"Apan alaut kamong mga Fariseo! kay nagahatag kamo sa ikapulo sa yerbabuyna ug sa kaningag ug sa tanang utanon, apan inyong gibiyaan ang katarungan ug ang gugma alang sa Dios; kining mga butanga kinahanglan gayud unta nga inyong pagabuhaton sa walay pagbiya sa uban.
Croatian	"Ali jao vama, farizeji! Namirujete desetinu od metvice i rutvice i svake vrste povræa, a ne marite za pravednost i ljubav Božju. Ovo je trebalo èiniti, a ono ne zanemariti."
Danish	Men ve eder, I Farisæere! thi I give Tiende af Mynte og Rude og alle Hånde Urter og forbigå Retten og Kærligheden til Gud; disse Ting burde man gøre og ikke forsømme hine.
Dutch	Maar wee u, Farizeen, want gij vertient munte, en ruite, en alle moeskruid, en gij gaat voorbij het oordeel en de liefde Gods. Dit moest men doen, en het andere niet nalaten.
Finnish	Mutta voi teitä, te fariseukset, kun te annatte kymmenykset mintuista ja ruuduista ja kaikenlaisista vihanneksista, mutta sivuutatte oikeuden ja Jumalan rakkauden! Näitä olisi tullut noudattaa eikä noitakaan laiminlyödä.
French	Mais malheur � vous, pharisiens! parce que vous payez la dîme de la menthe, de la rue, et de toutes les herbes, et que vous négligez la justice et l`amour de Dieu: c`est l� ce qu`il fallait pratiquer, sans omettre les autres choses.
German	Aber weh euch Pharisäern, daß ihr verzehnt die Minze und Raute und allerlei Kohl, und geht vorbei an dem Gericht und an der Liebe Gottes! Dies sollte man tun und jenes nicht lassen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Celakalah kalian, orang-orang Farisi! Hasil tanamanmu seperti misalnya selasih dan inggu dan rempah-rempah lainnya, kalian berikan sepersepuluhnya kepada Allah, tetapi keadilan dan kasih kepada Allah tidak kalian hiraukan. Padahal itulah yang seharusnya kalian lakukan, tanpa melalaikan yang lain-lainnya juga.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Wai kamu, hai orang Parisi! Karena kamu membayar sepersepuluh dari selasih dan inggu dan sayur-sayuran, pada halnya kamu melalui hukum dan kasih Allah. Inilah yang patut diperbuat, dan yang lain itu pun jangan ditinggalkan.
Italian	Ma guai a voi, farisei, che pagate la decima della menta, della ruta e di ogni erbaggio, e poi trasgredite la giustizia e l'amore di Dio. Queste cose bisognava curare senza trascurare le altre.
Latvian	Bet bçdas jums, farizeji! Jûs dodat desmito tiesu no mçtrâm un rûtâm, un visâdiem dârza augiem, bet atstâjat neievçrotu taisnîbu un Dieva mîlestîbu. Vienu vajadzçja darît, bet arî otru neatstât.
Manx Gaelic	Agh smerg diuish Phariseeyn: son ta shiu jagheenys mynthey, rue, as dy chooilley horch dy lossreeyn, agh s'beg ta shiu soiaghey jeh briwnys as graih Yee: ad shoh lhisagh shiu v'er n'yannoo, gyn faagail y chooid elley gyn jannoo.
Maori	Otira, aue, te mate mo koutou, e nga Parihi! e hoatu ana hoki e koutou te wahi whakatekau, o te miniti, o te ru, o nga otaota katoa, a kapea ake te whakarite whakawa me te aroha ki te Atua: he tika ano ko enei kia meatia, kia kaua ano hoki era e kapea.
Norwegian	Men ve eder, I fariseere, I som gir tiende av mynte og rute og alle slags maturter, og ikke spør efter rett og kjærlighet til Gud! Dette burde gjøres, og det andre ikke lates ugjort.
Rumanian	Dar vai de voi, Fariseilor! Pentrucq voi dayi zeciuialq din izmq, din rutq wi din toate zarzavaturile, wi dayi uitqrii dreptatea wi dragostea de Dumnezeu: pe acestea trebuia sq le faceyi, wi pe celelalte sq nu le lqsayi nefqcute!
Shuar	Aneartarum, Pariséutirmesha. Aya nuka méntasha, anissha tura aya apatkusha Yus Súsatin ti Enentáimprume. Nukasha tsuriasrum apatkusha tias ana Nuyá chikichik achikrum, Yúsnaiti Tátsurmek. Tura antsu nu Túratin iniaitsuk pénker wekasatniusha, Yus anenmarmena nusha pénker Enentáimsatniuitrume. Wats init, Enentáimin ana Nútiksarmek jusam susarta. Nuinkia Ashí chamir átatui.'
Spanish	¡Ay de vosotros, fariseos! Porque diezmáis la menta, la ruda y toda hortaliza, pero pasáis por alto el juicio y el amor de Dios. Es necesario hacer estas cosas, sin pasar por alto aquéllas.
Swahili	"Lakini ole wenu Mafarisayo, kwa sababu mnatoza watu zaka hata juu ya majani ya kukolezea chakula, mchicha na majani mengine, na huku hamjali juu ya haki na upendo kwa Mungu. Mambo haya iliwapasa muwe mmeyazingatia bila kuyasahau yale mengine.
Swedish	Men ve eder, I fariséer, som given tionde av mynta och ruta och alla slags kryddväxter, men icke akten på rätten och på kärleken till Gud! Vet ena borden I göra, men icke underlåta det andra.
Uma	"Silaka-koi to Parisi! Ntahawe' hinu'a to kedi' hewa tarangkada' pai' kula' pai' hinu'a ntani' -na nipopepue' hampobagiahampulu' hi Alata'ala. Hiaa' parenta to bohe, hewa po'ingku to monoa' hi doo-ni pai' ahi' hi Pue' Ala, uma nisaile'. Kakoo-kono-na, ke parenta to bohe toe-hanale to kana nituku' -e, pai' neo' wo'o nilipo' mpotuku' parenta to kedi'.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Undone

Misspellings
	"Undone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cundone, Dundon, Dundonnel, indone, ondine, onone, Runcorne, udon, uncone, unden, undene, undon, Undong, undonted, undope, undoze, Unione, Unton, unvon, usdoe. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Undone"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "undone" (pronounced undu"n)
3	-d u" n	done, Donne, dun, outdone, overdone, redone.
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Anagrams: Undone

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-n-n-o-u"
	-1 letter: donne.
	-2 letters: done, dune, neon, node, none, noun, nude, unde, undo.
	-3 letters: den, doe, don, due, dun, duo, end, eon, nod, nun, ode, one, oud, udo.
	-4 letters: de, do, ed, en, ne, no, nu, od, oe, on, un.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-n-n-o-u"
	+1 letter: bounden, dungeon, enwound, unboned, unnoted, unowned, unzoned.
	+2 letters: denounce, dubonnet, dungeons, enounced, innuendo, newfound, soundmen, unatoned, uncoined, ungowned, unironed, unjoined, unopened, unstoned, unwonted.
	+3 letters: announced, continued, denounced, denouncer, denounces, dubonnets, dungeoned, inbounded, innuendos, loudening, newshound, nonplused, nonsuited, outgunned, outmanned, outsinned, renounced, roundness, roundsmen, soundness, sundowner, tendinous, unadorned, unbounded, uncounted, uncrowned, underdone, undergone, undertone, unfounded, unhonored, unionised, unionized, unjointed, unknotted, unmounted, unmourned, unnoticed, unrounded, unsounded, unsounder, unthroned, untrodden, unwounded.
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