'Undermine' definitions:
Definition of 'undermine'
(from WordNet)
verb
Destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war" [syn: sabotage, undermine, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken]
verb
Hollow out as if making a cave or opening; "The river was caving the banks" [syn: cave, undermine]
Definition of 'Undermine'
From: GCIDE
- Undermine \Un`der*mine"\, v. t.
- 1. To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall. [1913 Webster]
- A vast rock undermined from one end to the other, and a highway running through it. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: To remove the foundation or support of by clandestine means; to ruin in an underhand way; as, to undermine reputation; to undermine the constitution of the state. [1913 Webster]
- He should be warned who are like to undermine him. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'undermine'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- answer,
- answer conclusively,
- argue down,
- attenuate,
- blunt,
- bugger up,
- confound,
- confute,
- contradict,
- controvert,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- crush,
- damage,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dash,
- deaden,
- debilitate,
- defeat,
- demolish,
- deny,
- devitalize,
- disable,
- dismiss,
- dispose of,
- drain,
- dull,
- enervate,
- enfeeble,
- eviscerate,
- exhaust,
- extenuate,
- finish,
- floor,
- foil,
- frustrate,
- gruel,
- harm,
- honeycomb,
- hurt,
- impair,
- lay low,
- mine,
- mitigate,
- nonplus,
- overset,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- overwhelm,
- parry,
- put to silence,
- queer,
- rattle,
- rebut,
- reduce,
- reduce to silence,
- refute,
- ruin,
- sabotage,
- sap,
- sap the foundations,
- settle,
- shake,
- shake up,
- shut up,
- silence,
- smash all opposition,
- soften up,
- spoil,
- squash,
- squelch,
- subvert,
- threaten,
- throw down,
- throw over,
- thwart,
- unbrace,
- undercut,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unstrengthen,
- unstring,
- upend,
- upset,
- weaken,
- wreck