undermine

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To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage

• Old age has undermined her memory.

  Das Alter hat sich auf ihr Erinnerungsvermögen ausgewirkt.

  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

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To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water

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To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sapselten

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To regard an object as the sum of the parts that compose it, in object-oriented ontologyselten