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单词 undone
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undoneadj.1

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈdʌn/, U.S. /ˌənˈdən/
Etymology: un- prefix1 2b. Compare Old Frisian ondan (North Frisian ündōn), Middle Dutch ongedaen (Dutch -daan), Middle High German ungetân (German -than, -tan).
1.
a. Not done; unaccomplished, uneffected.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [adjective] > not done, performed, or carried out
undonec1380
unsped1390
unperformed1442
unwroughtc1480
unaccomplished1525
unexecuted1585
unled1586
uneffected1592
unacted1594
uncommitted1598
unhatched1601
unachieved1603
unpaida1616
unperpetrated1646
undischarged1709
uninflicted1757
unredeemed1812
untransactedc1825
unenacted1827
undelivered1895
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 90 He mot leue goddis comaundement vndon.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13176 His comandment was noght vn-dun, For he was heued and þat als sun.
a1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 1187 Hast þou any pylgrimage laft vn-do When þou were i-ioynet þer-to?
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 114 Ȝif..þou leve vnsayd or vndo þat is nedefull..þanne is it dedly synne.
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 25 Euery parishe..shal lose & forfait .xx.s. for euery moneth, in whiche it is omitted and vndone.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xxi. 110 [They] goe on such pilgrimage, leauing vndone al other houshold or common affaires.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 103 The Publick Business is undone, Which still the longer 'tis in doing, Becomes the surer way to Ruine.
1706 M. Prior Ode to Queen xix Nought done the Hero deem'd, while ought undone remain'd.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxx. 43 I must not..leave at last undone what I came hither only to do.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. iv. 126 They went out of the shop together, leaving my horse's shoe undone.
1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. 5 If I leave it undone, some one else will do it to my mind.
1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos vi. 74 The sword completed what the fire had left undone.
b. As n. That which is not done.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [noun] > leaving undone > that which is not done
arrearagesc1315
arrear1658
undone1872
1872 J. Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) II. 208 The condemnation..is all for the undones and not for the dones.
2. Not done away, not removed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > presence > [adjective] > not removed or done away
withlefta1400
unremoved1455
untaken1483
unextracted1630
undone1679
undisplaced1827
undislodgeda1847
1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 204 While this Vail and face of Covering is undone away.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

undoneadj.2

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈdʌn/, U.S. /ˌənˈdən/
Etymology: < undo v.
1. Brought to decay or ruin; ruined, destroyed.Chiefly predicative, but the attributive use was not infrequent in the 17th and was common in the 18th century.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective]
fellc1330
undone1340
ruinous?a1439
violablea1470
perniciousc1475
destructive1490
confusible1502
destroying1535
exitiable1548
ruinate1562
peremptory1567
wrackful1578
slaughterous1582
ruinating1595
ruining1605
corrumpent1607
wracksome1608
in suds1611
destructory1614
poisonousa1616
wrakefulc1625
predatory1626
predatorious1641
demolishing1648
untwined1649
undoing1654
destructionable1656
destructful1659
mortal1670
wreckinga1677
fatal1692
quadrumanous1704
interdestructive1805
annihilatory1825
demolitionary1834
ruinatious1845
consumptive1860
thunderous1874
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 136 Hueruore his bodi is ondo, and his inwyt uolueld.
a1400–50 Alexander 1472 We ere dredles vnd one, bot driȝten vs help.
a1450 Mirk's Festial 192 He..ȝaf hym all to foly aftyr, and laft hit neuer til he wer vndon.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope ii. ix Many one is vndone and lost for faulte of obedyence.
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) 92 When her stoore was stroyed with the flodd, Then well awaye for she vndone was clene.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 38 Kepe hop from Sonne, and hop is vndonne [1577 vndone].
1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one iii. sig. D4v That Wit-good is a riotous, vndon man.
1646 P. Bulkley Gospel-covenant i. 48 The low and undone condition they have brought themselves into by their sins.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) 89 England commonly beareth the whole burthen, and charge, whereby many in England are utterly undone.
1724 J. Swift Let. to Mr. Harding 11 We are all undone if Wood's Half-pence must pass.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvii. iv. 117 I am the most miserable, undone Wretch upon Earth. View more context for this quotation
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xiv. 193 Blaney, a wealthy Heir at twenty-one, At twenty-five was ruin'd and undone.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby lvi. 558 I am undone. Whichever way I turn, I am undone.
a1864 J. F. Ferrier Lect. Greek Philos. (1866) I. xii. 348 A soul without justice..is a soul undone.
2. Unfastened, untied, detached, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > [adjective] > loose, unfastened, or untied > loosened, unfastened, or untied
yloused1387
unlokec1410
undone1565
loosened1680
diffixed1727
unreeved1730
dissoluteda1777
adrift1834
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Vincla resoluta, loosed or vndoone.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 123 The outer bandage of a wound in your bridle-hand coming undone.
1884 W. S. Gilbert Princess Ida ii Let all your things misfit, and yourselves At inconvenient moments come undone.

Phrases

to come undone: to come to grief.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief
misfareOE
miswendOE
misferec1275
misspeeda1387
miscarryc1387
mischieve?a1400
to catch copper1530
to lose one's seatc1540
mischief1598
to bu(r)st one's boiler1824
to come to grief1850
to come (also go) a mucker1851
to come (fall, get) a cropper1858
mucker1862
to go or be up the flume1865
to come undone1899
to play smash1903
to come to a sticky end1904
to come unstuck1911
1899 Sketch 1 Nov. 84/1 The Oban ‘boom’ came badly undone... But let us suppose Oban had won, what would the other owners with horses in the race have said about the handicap?
1922 Notes & Queries 9 Sept. 207/2 When a fancied horse, thought to be ‘a good thing’, fails to realize expectations, it is said to be ‘a good thing come undone’.

Derivatives

rare.
unˈdoneness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > state of being destroyed or ruined
lossc897
losingc950
lore971
destructionc1330
forlesing1340
lostc1374
undoing1377
perditiona1382
shendc1400
decay1535
rack1599
undoneness1835
wanthrift1929
1835 R. M. McCheyne Addit. Rem. (1847) 35 Under a sense of undoneness, to flee for refuge to the Saviour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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