undo
verb (used with object)
to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done.
were undoing
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past progressiveof undo.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I was put into a position and we were undoing it.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2024
And here were people who were undoing the institution.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2022
BY THE 1980S, Turin, like Detroit, was suffering from the same forces that were undoing all the old automotive cities.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2017
The bad people were undoing Dukakis' reforms, and he went after them with his first ferocity, encouraging the leaks, playing up the grudge match he would win with King in 1982.
From Time Magazine Archive
They could hardly exchange a word, and Ya-nei's trembling hands were undoing.
From Eastern Shame Girl by Charles Georges Souli
