Dictionary Definition
undermine
Verb
1 destroy property or hinder normal operations;
"The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war" [syn:
sabotage, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken]
2 hollow out as if making a cave or opening; "The
river was caving the banks" [syn: cave]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪn
Translations
to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave
or opening
- ttbc Italian: insidiare
- ttbc Portuguese: sabotar or implodir
- ttbc Swedish: undergräva, underminera.
- ttbc Spanish: socavar
Antonyms
Extensive Definition
Undermine can refer to
- For the military practise of mining a fortification, see Mining (military)
- For the fictional Transformers character see Undermine (Transformers)
- For the fictional Warcraft location see Undermine (Warcraft)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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