undermine 的定义
un·der·mined, un·der·min·ing.
- to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
- to attack by indirect, secret, or underhand means; attempt to subvert by stealth.
- to make an excavation under; dig or tunnel beneath, as a military stronghold.
- to weaken or cause to collapse by removing underlying support, as by digging away or eroding the foundation.
undermine 近义词
weaken
undermine 的近义词 35 个
- blunt
- cripple
- erode
- frustrate
- hurt
- impair
- ruin
- sabotage
- sap
- subvert
- threaten
- thwart
- torpedo
- undercut
- wreck
- attenuate
- corrode
- debilitate
- dig
- disable
- enfeeble
- excavate
- foil
- mine
- sandbag
- soften
- tunnel
- wear
- clip one's wings
- dig out
- eat away
- hollow out
- knock the bottom out of
- poke full of holes
- whittle away
undermine 的反义词 12 个
更多undermine例句
- About a month ago, we laid out five ways that Republicans are making it harder to vote and more generally undermining the electoral process in 2020.
- If we don’t, we run the risk of undermining public health in the US — and even more specifically undermining the entire vaccination program.
- Suggesting that one party is better than the other to our allies runs the risk of undermining our national position and credibility when the other party takes power.
- Cowan said they believe the initial changes aimed to undermine mail delivery and now workers fear more changes will be made to slow the Postal Service — and nobody will find out until it is too late.
- “You can’t just chase dollars, otherwise we’d be undermining the authority” that GQ has when it comes to quality product recommendations, said Welch.
- The most dangerous attacks are those that undermine your perceived strength.
- The ACLU and its allies are trying to undermine the holiday with lawsuits and annoying billboards.
- One lefty tweeter even complained that an invasion of icky American tourists would undermine “family values” in Cuba.
- We “undermine” our nature every time we use glasses or medicine, after all.
- His detractors tried to undermine his standing with Reagan, but he had support from an unlikely source—hard-line conservatives.
- The influence of the Jews had helped also to undermine heathenism and thus to prepare the ground for Christianity.
- While an attempt is made to undermine his claim to wisdom, it will incidentally appear that wisdom was ascribed to him.
- You remember it, Dean, I thought him a villain when I learned how he was trying to undermine you.
- With cynical cruelty, he set himself to insult, to undermine, to mutilate it.
- Mr J. (still seeking, as I could see, to undermine me in his friend's favour).