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UNDOER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does undoer mean?
• UNDOER (noun)
The noun UNDOER has 3 senses:
1. a seducer who ruins a woman
2. a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens
3. a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
Familiarity information: UNDOER used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A seducer who ruins a woman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
she awoke in the arms of her cruel undoer
Hypernyms ("undoer" is a kind of...):
ladies' man; lady killer; seducer (a man who takes advantage of women)
Derivation:
undo (cause the ruin or downfall of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who unfastens or unwraps or opens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
opener; undoer; unfastener; untier
Context example:
children are talented undoers of their shoelaces
Hypernyms ("undoer" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Derivation:
undo (remove the outer cover or wrapping of)
undo (cause to become loose)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster
Context example:
uprooters of gravestones
Hypernyms ("undoer" is a kind of...):
bad person (a person who does harm to others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "undoer"):
annihilator (a total destroyer)
iconoclast; image breaker (a destroyer of images used in religious worship)
diversionist; saboteur; wrecker (someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks)
vandal (someone who willfully destroys or defaces property)
Derivation:
undo (cause the ruin or downfall of)
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