UNDOING

n. 1 ruin, ruination, destruction, devastation, defeat, downfall, overthrow, fall, collapse, descent, debasement, degradation, abasement, mortification, humiliation, shame, disgrace It is not easy to identify the factors that brought about the demagogue's undoing 2 curse, misfortune, bane, affliction, trouble, blight As the novelists would have it, a beautiful woman was his undoing