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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
Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
The outing, shared in part on her Instagram Stories while celebrating a friend’s birthday, placed the actress at the center of fashion’s growing return to snakeskin while tying the print to an undone menswear silhouette.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 6 Dec. 2025
Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025
Not to be undone, Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Christmas feast included magnificent blue carp.
—Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
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Adjective
At one point, Day also came to Cruise’s rescue after noticing one of the buttons on his shirt had come undone.
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Meanwhile, its ostensibly heartwarming elements are undone by their vagueness.
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Grandaddy, unbeaten and untied and still heavyweight champion of the college football world.—
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The images featured Williams striking several poses while standing in knee-deep waters, wearing a yellow, one-piece swimsuit with a cutout in the center and an untied bowtie.—
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Two shivering dogs now sat in her backseat, exhausted but safe.—
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Surely that has increasing resonance among the politically exhausted and spiritually disenchanted.—
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Hawking’s work on the physics of black holes helped reshape the scientific understanding of the universe, even after being diagnosed with a motor neuron disease also known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, early in life that gradually paralyzed him.—
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Economists have attributed this to high uncertainty (in part due to massive shifts in trade and immigration policy) that has paralyzed much business investment.—
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Yet, the season unraveled in 2025, due largely to injuries.—
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But their plans to get back home have completely unraveled.—
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Over the years, California Highway Patrol officers have told Honk their priority is saving lives — so intoxicated and distracted drivers, speeders and those not wearing seat belts get top billing.—
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Moreover, 14% of more than 1,000 respondents said at least one accident had occurred at their workplace because an employee was distracted by a smartphone—often resulting in injury or damage to property.—
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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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In addition, the creation of the fetishes, with their bits of bone, dirt, plants, and other objects, also unnerved enslavers and colonists.—
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Between the first incident involving Itsaragrisil until — and after — Bosch's crowning, Sapini told PEOPLE that she was consistently unnerved by the conditions of the competition.—
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And my father—lovable but imposing, a strapping six feet three inches tall with a thick, bristly mustache and a rumbling Sergeant Schultz accent that frightened my friends half to death—loved to tell stories.—
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Fortune had reported in its investigation that people within the agency were frightened of examining Boring Company after two staffers who worked on the case had been disciplined.—
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“Undone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undone. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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