verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
do up/undo a zip
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Your zip’s undone at the back.
left undone
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So much had been left undone .
undo a button (= unfasten it )
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I can't undo the buttons on the back of this dress.
untie/undo a knot
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He tried to untie the knot in the rope around his ankles.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
belt
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As it lifted from the Luftwaffe fighter base outside Berlin, Schellenberg undid his seat belt and reached for his briefcase.
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I could see him above me undoing his belt .
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His thumb rubbed sensuously along the swollen lower lip while his other hand undid his belt buckle.
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John is hungry, so he undoes his seat belt slowly and carefully.
button
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She was repeatedly doing up and undoing the bottom button of her black cardigan.
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When he paused, she pushed him away, and undid the buttons of his pajama jacket.
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Loosen tie &038; undo top button of shirt so that shirt collar bows out and tie arches forward like a cup handle.
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He hesitated, then with a straight arm reached and undid her top button .
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He had loosened his tie and undone the top button of his shirt.
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He undid his buttons , and peeled off his shirt.
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He shrugged out of his jacket and her hands went to his cotton shirt, fumbling in their haste to undo the buttons .
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He pushed her backwards and covered her body with his own, as he gradually undid the buttons of her dress.
damage
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You have a chance maybe to undo some of the damage that man has caused our family.
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Maybe there was still time to undo the damage ?
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She had to see Ratchette and try and undo some of the damage that had been done there.
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We certainly can not undo the damage of a lifetime in only thirty days, Sam.
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But it is not too late to undo that damage .
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Cotton, with an assist from this public-spirited pillar, has done his best to undo the damage caused by the hogwash.
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There wasn't any way Evelyn could undo the damage .
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It would be a cruel hoax because City would not be able to undo the damage these young people had suffered.
jacket
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Marcus then undid Patrick's pyjama jacket and started to try to pull it off, then decided not to.
knot
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Then some one undid the knots and he collapsed head first into the mud.
shirt
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Loosen tie &038; undo top button of shirt so that shirt collar bows out and tie arches forward like a cup handle.
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His flies were undone and his shirt torn.
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She began to undo the third shirt .
strap
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Thinking that it was heavier than it looked, he undid the straps and buckles and threw back the flap.
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I undid the rotor tie-down strap and removed it.
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They grabbed my arms and swung me over to a mat lying at the side then undid the strap around my ankles.
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He undid the tough leather straps and threw open the lid.
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He undid the strap and lifted the lid.
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She undid the straps and carried the ladder into the house.
tie
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Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her.
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Slowly, he undid his bow tie , pulled it off.
work
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The past nine months of wobbling over Maastricht have undone that work .
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Cross-breeding will undo all that work .
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Only one fertile Genestealer needed to remain alive in hiding to undo all the good work within a few decades.
zip
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I undo the zip on my jeans.
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Bernard looked up and Apricot made a dive to undo his zip .
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Spike heads for the toilet-undoes his zip ..
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The solution was a watch with a magnetic field strong enough to undo a zip .
■ VERB
come
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Early morning sun on the approach to Lliwedd At 15m I nearly come undone .
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The harbor; suddenly, was a coastal graveyard, one headstone overturning, and one plot coming undone .
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But the damage he did came undone with the miraculous resurrection of Beloved.
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He could not tell whether they were broken ends, or perhaps the loose ends from underwater knots that had come undone .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be sb's undoing
come open/undone/loose etc
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As she reached the doors they came open, the button pressed by two people outside.
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His heart felt it would come loose in his body, so wildly was it beating.
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Some ropes had come loose and were swinging wildly in the wind.
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Then she felt something on her arm and discovered her scarf had come undone.
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Then sprinkle on water and re-trowel in come loose-use an emulsion paint brush.
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Think of all the things that come loose around the house.
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When the Thayer principalship came open in the summer of 1981, Littky applied and reentered the educational world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I can't undo the string!
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I wish it was possible to undo what I've done.
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My fingers were so cold that I couldn't undo the buttons.
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Rosie undid her necklace and put it on the bedside table.
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She undid the ribbon and let her hair fall over her shoulders.
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She carefully undid the ribbons and opened the scroll.
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Stelling was eventually undone by his political mistakes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there is no easy way to undo the nuclear binge of the cold war.
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Cotton, with an assist from this public-spirited pillar, has done his best to undo the damage caused by the hogwash.
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Marcus then undid Patrick's pyjama jacket and started to try to pull it off, then decided not to.
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Pop that unravels its own workings, undoes itself.