undo

v.撤销

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
undo (verb)
transitive verb
1.
to open or loose by releasing a fastening
2.
to make of no effect or as if not done make null - reverse
3.
a) to ruin the worldly means, reputation, or hopes of - a politician undone by scandal
b) to disturb the composure of - upset she's come undone
intransitive verb
c) - seduce to come open or apart
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
undo (verb)
1.
to deprive of courage or confidence
SYNONYMS:
demoralize, emasculate, paralyze, undo, unman, unstring
RELATED WORDS:
debilitate, enervate, enfeeble, neuter, weaken; prostrate, sap, soften, tire, waste; frighten, intimidate, psych (out), scare, terrify, terrorize; daunt, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit; craze, derange, madden, unbalance, unhinge; discompose, disquiet, disturb, faze, perturb, unsettle, upset, weird out
NEAR ANTONYMS:
fortify, strengthen; embolden, encourage, hearten
nerve
undo (verb)
2.
to disengage the knotted parts of
SYNONYMS:
unbind, undo, unfasten, unlash
RELATED WORDS:
unbraid, unlace; disentangle, ravel, unravel, unsnarl, untangle, unwind; loose, loosen
NEAR ANTONYMS:
braid, interlace, interweave, lace, wind; entangle, snarl, tangle
bind, fasten, knot, lash, tie
undo (verb)
3.
to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy
SYNONYMS:
agitate, ail, alarm ( alarum), bother, concern, derail, discomfort, discompose, dismay, disquiet, distemper, distract, distress, exercise, flurry, frazzle, freak (out), fuss, hagride, perturb, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, weird out, worry
RELATED WORDS:
aggravate, anger, annoy, bug, chafe, chivy ( chivvy), exasperate, fret, gall, get, grate, harass, harry, irk, irritate, nettle, peeve, pester, pique, put off, put out, rile, vex; bedevil, haunt, plague; abash, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, jar, mortify, nonplus, rattle, shake up; daunt, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, unnerve
NEAR ANTONYMS:
allay, alleviate, assuage; appease, conciliate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate
calm, compose, quiet, settle, soothe, tranquilize ( tranquillize)
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