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 

• UNDOER (noun)

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)