undid

verb

past tense of undo
1
as in paralyzed
to deprive of courage or confidence the sudden shriek undid the campers

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2
as in untied
to disengage the knotted parts of undo a tangled shoelace

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3
as in bothered
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 undid But when renovating an 18th-century apartment on a side street in the Marais, architect Clément Lesnoff-Rocard boldly undid a number of alterations to the home over the years. — Felix Wagner, Architectural Digest, 11 July 2026 This movie completely undid my sense of what that type of filmmaking could be. — Stephanie Bai, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026 Shamar Joseph then used the favorable overcast bowling conditions to perfection when his impeccable swing undid Kamindu Mendis, who left a delivery that swung back enough to knock back the off stump. — ABC News, 28 June 2026 Instead, Sapphire undid her shorts. — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026 Ryan Oksenhorn, co-founder of drone delivery startup Zipline, wrote in a post on X last month that his company was evaluating GitLab and Atlassian's Bitbucket after GitHub accidentally undid code revisions, and subsequently provided instructions on recovering changes. — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 22 May 2026 Specifically, the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act undid parts of the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act that had offered tax incentives for wind and solar. — David Condos, NPR, 19 May 2026 Errors undid the Mets on Sunday in the desert as well. — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 11 May 2026 Mother Nature undid a chunk of that work last week when an EF1 tornado descended on the R2 plant amid an onslaught of more than 30 twisters across the state, according to the National Weather Service. — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undid
  1. paralyzed
  2. untied
  3. bothered
  4. scared
  5. loosened
  6. alarmed
  7. terrified
  8. unfastened
Verb
  • Vaccines Are Victims Of Their Own Success Most parents have not seen a child permanently paralyzed by polio or struggling to breathe from diphtheria.
    — Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The shooting left Steven McDonald paralyzed from the neck down.
    — Ali Bauman, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Definition of paralyzed
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  • Because you can't get untied every time.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026
  • As the Knicks pulled away in the third quarter of Game 1, Hart bent down during a stoppage in play and, without saying a word, subtly untied the shoe of Fallon, who was seated courtside.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026
Definition of untied
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  • The effect that Republicans’ Wuhan investigations and right-leaning media had on Fauci’s public image continuously bothered him, according to the writings.
    — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 31 July 2026
  • Johnson took the job partly out of patriotism; he was bothered that so few people knew the smartphone was a Canadian invention.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 July 2026
Definition of bothered
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  • What scared Josée wasn’t dying, but the uncertainty of when her pain would end.
    — Sai Rajagopal, STAT, 4 Aug. 2026
  • That was what really scared me at the beginning of my own novel-writing process.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 July 2026
Definition of scared
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  • And so the incumbent party lost, and then the Federal Reserve recognized its mistake, loosened in 2016, and the economy accelerated in 2017, 2018, 2019.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026
  • Relatedly, restitution may begin to address the pain that has become ubiquitous, an opportunity to unlatch the tentacle grips of oppression, which can be loosened through collective organizing, with something for everyone and not just a few.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
Definition of loosened
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  • Among those alarmed by the state’s mounting repression are civil-society figures who have staunchly opposed the war with America and Israel.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • An OpenAI test that escaped its cage and alarmed the AI and cybersecurity industry attacked more than just Hugging Face, the AI platform that initially appeared to be the sole victim of the virtual lab leak.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 July 2026
Definition of alarmed
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  • Selling meant losing all of that in one signature, and some deep, unspoken part of her was terrified of what came next.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • In a case like the Davis stabbings that terrified a community, there might have been a public outcry if former Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig hadn’t charged Dominguez with murder, Reichel said.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of terrified
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  • After the pink fabric is unfastened from styrofoam beams floating 200 feet out from each island, the sections are towed to shore and rolled up in bundles, Morgan said.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Skinny Pedro unfastened his seat belt and turned his seat around to face me.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Definition of unfastened

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