亚洲网紅露点

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undermine

[ uhn-der-mahyn uhn-der-mahyn ]

verb (used with object)

undermined, undermining.
  1. to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
  2. to attack by indirect, secret, or underhand means; attempt to subvert by stealth.
  3. to make an excavation under; dig or tunnel beneath, as a military stronghold.
  4. to weaken or cause to collapse by removing underlying support, as by digging away or eroding the foundation.


undermine

/ 藢蕦苍诲蓹藞尘补瑟苍 /

verb

  1. (of the sea, wind, etc) to wear away the bottom or base of (land, cliffs, etc)
  2. to weaken gradually or insidiously

    their insults undermined her confidence

  3. to tunnel or dig beneath
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藢耻苍诲别谤藞尘颈苍别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 耻苍路诲别谤路尘颈苍路别谤 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of undermine1

First recorded in 1300鈥50; Middle English underminen; under-, mine 2
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"Not to keep Trump happy but because it is in Australia's interests to constrain the adversary that is undermining our strategic interests."

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Second, Bondi announced that she plans to pursue cases 鈥渨here a Government employee discloses sensitive information for the purposes of personal enrichment and undermining our foreign policy, national security and government effectiveness.鈥

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Everything that 鈥淯SA鈥 has long stood for 鈥 financial stability, military strength, cultural prestige and more 鈥 undermined.

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鈥淒on鈥檛 undermine and wipe away all those years of work,鈥 Rodriguez said at a news conference at City Hall on Wednesday.

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The order, she said, 鈥渦ndermines decades of progress and goes against a large body of research that shows that punitive, exclusionary discipline does not work.鈥

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