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UNDOER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

Example:

uprooters of gravestones

Synonyms:

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who unfastens or unwraps or opens

Example:

children are talented undoers of their shoelaces

Synonyms:

opener; undoer; unfastener; untier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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 seducer who ruins a woman

Example:

she awoke in the arms of her cruel undoer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

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