undermined 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.
undermined 近义词
weaken
undermined 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
undermined 的反义词 12 个
更多undermined例句
- Their alternative is to reward two politicians conspiring to groundlessly undermine faith in American democracy.
- As he tottered to a waiting SUV, the former mayor was asked whether his stunts are undermining an election that, by all serious accounts, was fair and accurate.
- Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, environmental protection laws have been severely undermined.
- His face stiffened, as if the world should have known that any pain medication would undermine the central project of his time on earth.
- Together, both directives in the order effectively rewrite the GAOA and undermine the authority of Congress.
- The safety of American personnel at the American consulate in Libya was undermined by a “stand down order.”
- Ford, now with the Middle East Institute, says that in some ways the strikes have “undermined the moderates.”
- There are any number of examples of nations at war not allowing themselves to be undermined by journalists.
- Blood Sport is filled with big conclusions that are undermined by the known facts.
- Many factors ultimately undermined the first old agrarian Jeffersonian dream.
- It was the abuse of hashish that, undoubtedly, undermined his constitution, formerly so robust and strong.
- Meanwhile it was this foolish habit—nothing more—that undermined the inherent firmness of his nature.
- Her resentment of that undermined all the fairness of her logic, and even triumphed over the sword of her suspense.
- Such mock-modesty would at once have undermined her arguments.
- Thus, the sand will be undermined by the waves, and this will cause the block to fall into the sea.