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undermined

[ uhn-der-mahynd uhn-der-mahynd ]

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adjective

attacked, weakened, or defeated by underhand or seemingly harmless actions or by imperceptible stages:
Both the struggling students and the most gifted ones are receiving limited support from an undermined educational system.
weakened or made to collapse by removing underlying support, as by eroding or digging away the foundation:
With the release of material from the undermined cliffs at these sites, we should have had far more sand to feed the beaches, not less.
deliberately weakened by an excavation or tunnel dug underneath, as by an enemy in war:
When the town was besieged, its defenders abandoned the undermined walls and retired into the citadel.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of undermine.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of undermined¹

undermine ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

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But Hope Not Hate, an anti-racism campaign group which has clashed with Farage in the past, said the examples it had found undermined his vetting claims.

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For them, this meant taking every opportunity to stay within and underscore “Star Wars” canon and making sure to avoid things that undermined the story or doing things just for the sake of nostalgia.

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She also claimed the court's ruling had undermined the UK government's argument for blocking the legislation.

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Prosecutors said he had undermined national security for making remarks that questioned Algeria's borders.

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"He has broken a bond of trust and undermined the whole system of what is effectively the only HR department."

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