undone

«undone» in Mova's school dictionary: not fastened or tied: an undone shoelace, button or zip — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective; past participle of the verb «undo» (undo, undoes, undid, undone, undoing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Undone means not fastened or tied: an undone shoelace, button or zip. tree →

2) Undone means not finished or not done: work left undone. tree →

3) In old stories, «undone» means ruined or defeated. tree →

4) Something that cannot be undone cannot be changed back to how it was. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety and everyday life, children are told to tie undone shoelaces so they do not trip. In school, «homework left undone» means not finished. In computing, a change can be undone with the Undo button. Phrases: «come undone», «left undone», «your lace is undone».

examples

• Your shoelace is undone — tie it before you trip. tree →
• His top button came undone. tree →
• Some jobs were left undone. tree →
• The knot came undone in the wind. tree →
• I clicked undo, and the change was undone. tree →
• Her zip was undone. tree →
• What is done cannot be undone. tree →

note

Past participle of «undo»: «I undid it; it is undone». Not to be confused with «not done» in the sense of not cooked enough (that is «underdone»). «Come undone» means become unfastened by itself.

In the corpora

• Climbing on statues, monuments and museum displays leads to falls on hard floors and damage that cannot be undone.
• Can it be undone easily?
• These things will I do, and I will not leave them undone.
• For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion: 'How are we undone!
• The people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into captivity.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «undone» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.