undermined
past simple and past participle ofundermine
| 单词 | undermined |
| 释义 | undermined past simple and past participle ofundermine undermine verb[T] uk/ˌʌn.dəˈmaɪn/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈmaɪn/C2 to make someone lessconfident, lesspowerful, or lesslikelytosucceed, or to make somethingweaker, oftengradually: Thepresidenthasaccusedtwocabinetmembersofworkingsecretlyto undermine hisposition/him. Criticism just underminestheirconfidence.
Upsetting and destabilizing
Examplesofunderminedundermined In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The trust of the settlement and residence parish was therebyunderminedand the pauper became a problem. From theCambridge English Corpus Yet this in no wayunderminedthe trend towards greater political centralization. From theCambridge English Corpus Our later discussion about the relation between feasibility and sincerity suggests, however, that this expressive value need not beunderminedby strategic voting. From theCambridge English Corpus The invasion thus destroyed the government's strategic policy, andunderminedthe political order on which the policy itself was based. From theCambridge English Corpus This article has highlighted the importance of protecting these documents by setting in place effective formal safeguards against their beingunderminedthrough constitutional amendment. From theCambridge English Corpus The framework of the global isunderminedby the focus on individual particulars which remain merely individual. From theCambridge English Corpus The morale of the rural population is heavilyunderminedby this. From theCambridge English Corpus This increasing public responsibilityunderminedthe work of the benevolent philanthropic societies and left them with very little legitimacy. From theCambridge English Corpus Futurism, for instance, played an important role in interventionism, but other radical artistsunderminedthe nations' war efforts. From theCambridge English Corpus This indisciplineunderminedthe chain of command which, of course, perfectly suited the other side. From theCambridge English Corpus Finally, the political and economic upheavalunderminedmany of the principles the reformers stood for. From theCambridge English Corpus The whole system was thus counterproductive because itunderminedfinancial responsibility within departments without achieving any strategic economic gains. From theCambridge English Corpus Worse still, they blatantlyunderminedthe colonial mission by preaching divine healing. From theCambridge English Corpus Discourses of difference prescriptively defined by self\\communal alienation are thus critically and imaginativelyundermined. From theCambridge English Corpus Yet the position of those powerful new men who had accumulated large followings was, in the long term,underminedby these changes. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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