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undoer

un·doer

uncommon

noun

1.

a seducer who ruins a woman

  • “she awoke in the arms of her cruel undoer”
2.

a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens

  • “children are talented undoers of their shoelaces”
3.

a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

  • “a destroyer of the environment”
  • “jealousy was his undoer”
  • “uprooters of gravestones”

Origin

From Middle English undoer, ondoare, equivalent to undo + -er.

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