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Repeal vs Undoing - What's the difference?

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Repeal is a related term of undoing.


As verbs the difference between repeal and undoing

is that repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul while undoing is .

As nouns the difference between repeal and undoing

is that repeal is an act or instance of repealing while undoing is that which defeats.

repeal

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cancel, invalidate, annul.
    • to repeal a law
  • To recall; to summon (a person) again.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
  • To suppress; to repel.
  • * Milton
    • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.

    Synonyms

    * annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of repealing.

    • Anagrams

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    undoing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which defeats.
    • His fatal flaw was his undoing . In a sense he defeated himself.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
    • So far as the ape was concerned, Sabor reasoned correctly. The little fellow crouched trembling just an instant, but that instant was quite long enough to prove his undoing .

    Verb

    (head)