verb#6,876 by frequency
undermine
/ˌʌn.dəˈmaɪn/
To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage; To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water
- he/she/it
- undermines
- past participle
- undermined
Meanings
- 1
To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage
Old age has undermined her memory.
Tatoeba · Dejo · CC BY 2.0 FR
The market tends to undermine the very values that gave rise to it.
Tatoeba · al_ex_an_der · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water
- 3
To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to saprare
- 4
To regard an object as the sum of the parts that compose it, in object-oriented ontologyrare