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单词 undermine
释义
undermine
verb[T]
uk
/ˌʌn.dəˈmaɪn/us
/ˌʌn.dɚˈmaɪn/
C2
to make someone lessconfident, lesspowerful, or lesslikelytosucceed, or to make somethingweaker, oftengradually:
（常指逐渐地）削弱信心、权威等，损害
Thepresidenthasaccusedtwocabinetmembersofworkingsecretlyto undermine hisposition/him.总统指责有两位内阁部长在暗中算计他。
Criticism just underminestheirconfidence.批评只是削弱了他们的信心。
More examples
  • Asuccessionofscandalsandrevelationshas undermined thegovernmentover the pastyear.
  • Suddenly she justturnedon me andaccusedme of undermining her.
  • The country'seconomicpositionhas beenseriouslyundermined by thisaffair.
  • He's beentryingto undermine herpositionbyspreadingrumoursabout her.
  • If youcontinuallycriticizechildrenyou canseriouslyunderminetheirconfidence.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Upsetting and destabilizing
  • bring
  • bringsomeonedown
  • delegitimize
  • destabilization
  • destabilize
  • disruptive
  • disruptively
  • knock/throwsomeonefor a loopidiom
  • loop
  • make wavesidiom
  • put the skids undersomethingidiom
  • rock
  • scupper
  • stir
  • turn
  • unsettling
  • unspool
  • unspooling
  • upset
  • wave
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(Definition ofunderminefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

undermine| American Dictionary

undermine
verb[T]
us
/ˌʌn·dərˈmɑɪn/
tograduallyweakenordestroysomeone or something:
Theincompetenceandarroganceof the city’sadministrationhave underminedpublicconfidenceingovernment.
(Definition ofunderminefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofundermine

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The trust of the settlement and residence parish was thereby undermined and the pauper became a problem.
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It is conceivable that, through their actions over time, interest groups concretize a particular identity thereby undermining strategic adoption of new identities.
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Yet this in no way undermined the trend towards greater political centralization.
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The structuring of clan society in the area would, thus, become untenable in practical terms, with its infrastructure undermined.
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These deficits could also include difficulties with impulse control that might furtherunderminethe ability to arrive at effective choices.
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Another element undermining the total control exercised by central government was the question of corruption.
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Believing in these worlds resolves moral dilemmas thatunderminesocial cooperation.
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Proposals for egalitarian redistribution are frequently objected to on the grounds that they willundermineincentives to work and invest in human capital.
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This then reduces the vigour and 'bounce' of the elastic recoil and undermines the integrity of a breathing pattern set at birth.
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If this tool is subsumed by other cultural influences, then the exclusive base of a country's nationalism will be undermined.
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By 1700, the gradual introduction of coin and more commercial exchanges were undermining the royal control of such exchanges.
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Consider another hypothetical world in which many but not all parents of cloned childrenunderminetheir self-esteem.
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But they remained too few and too scattered tounderminethe left or to prevent the government's devastating crackdown on the union in 1985-86.
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The invasion thus destroyed the government's strategic policy, and undermined the political order on which the policy itself was based.
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I argue that the number-of-genes problem may neverthelessunderminethe scientifically viability of this weaker adaptationist research strategy.
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