undermining
present participle ofundermine
| 单词 | undermining |
| 释义 | undermining present 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
Examplesofunderminingundermining In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is conceivable that, through their actions over time, interest groups concretize a particular identity therebyunderminingstrategic adoption of new identities. From theCambridge English Corpus Another elementunderminingthe total control exercised by central government was the question of corruption. From theCambridge English Corpus By 1700, the gradual introduction of coin and more commercial exchanges wereunderminingthe royal control of such exchanges. From theCambridge English Corpus The musicians' use of dynamics underlines the marchers' reflexive awareness of performance, the carnival'sunderminingof the distinction between outsider and participant. From theCambridge English Corpus Harsh tax enforcement in situations with poor service delivery may thus contribute to furtherunderminingthe legitimacy of the government and increase tax resistance. From theCambridge English Corpus Byunderminingthe possibility of the widows' agency, they could discredit the governmental construction of "voluntary" sati on which toleration of the rite was based. From theCambridge English Corpus Strengthening this force was seen asunderminingthe president's grip on power and consolidating that of his deputy defence minister. From theCambridge English Corpus This placed individuals in a paradoxical position : they were vulnerable to exploitation, but protest or complaint riskedunderminingtheir position even further. From theCambridge English Corpus These more narrowly circumscribed educational, developmental, and psycholinguistic determinants are subordinated to politicalideological impositions at the risk ofunderminingbasic democratic principles. From theCambridge English Corpus He also argues that individual preferences may sometimes fail to be single-peaked even on an agreed-upon formal dimension, therebyunderminingpart (3). From theCambridge English Corpus I think it is arrogant for officials to consider deliberatelyunderminingtheir ministers by going outside the department. From theCambridge English Corpus Pragmatic interpretation is always needed, but this fact should not be interpreted asunderminingthe pragmatic/ semantic distinction. From theCambridge English Corpus The government's labour market and other economic policies still serve to worsen inequality,underminingthe redistributive effects of the budget. From theCambridge English Corpus It is proposed that these weakened representations may linger after articulation has normalized,underminingphonemic sensitivity and hence reading acquisition in the early school years. From theCambridge English Corpus Many of the papers in this volume end upunderminingone or other aspect of the saltationist view. 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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