Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who undoes, in any sense; one who reverses what has been done; one who ruins.
Wiktionary
- n. agent noun of undo; one who undoes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who undoes anything; especially, one who ruins another.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a seducer who ruins a woman
- n. a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
- n. a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens
Etymologies
- undo + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I don't think Kinsella is a thinker; he's a doer, or more accurately an undoer.”
“I was seized, disarmed, and withheld by two footmen; and in this situation felt the most exquisite torture in beholding my undoer approach with his young wife.”
“She sought not to know the object for which she was forsaken; she meant not to upbraid her undoer; her aim was to find”
“Though he mastered her chastity, he could not quiet her conscience, which incessantly upbraided her with breach of the marriage vow; nor did her undoer escape without a share of the reproaches suggested by her penitence and remorse.”
“Who should it be," said the barber, "but the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of injustice, the righter of wrongs, the protector of damsels, the terror of giants, and the winner of battles?”
“Andres, and said, "Come here, my son, I want to pay you what I owe you, as that undoer of wrongs has commanded me.”
“Without even knowing who it is that hopes to marry, his instinct is to be the spoiler, the undoer of merriment.”
“A woman's ne'er so ruined but she can Revenge herself on her undoer, Man. ”
“And thus I (that was born to be my own undoer) once more barred myself out from all that life offered me of happiness, since pride is ever purblind.”
“An old-time Irish rage suddenly welled up in his bosom as he contemplated this jaunty, sophisticated undoer of his daughter's virtue.”
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