From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sap . [from 14th c.]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2009 | author=w:Diarmaid MacCulloch | title=A History of Christianity | page=312 | publisher=Penguin | year_published=2010
|passage=Martin, for instance, had on one occasion UNDERMINED a tree sacred to
old gods, then stood in the path of its fall, but forced it to fall elsewhere
by making the sign of the Cross.}}
1. [en] [en] To weaken or work against; to hinder , sabotage . [from 15th c.]
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2008-04-07 | author=Janet Maslin | title=A Sex Researcher Walks Into a Lab, and Then Things Start to Get Comical | work=w:The New York Times | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/books/07masl.html
|passage=The penile mishaps (one involving a bristled toothbrush), severings
(one involves hungry ducks) and surgeries cited by Ms. Roach are nothing if
not memorable, but her book consistently UNDERMINES its own discoveries.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2012-04-19 | author=Josh Halliday | work=w:The Guardian
|title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?
(see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/19/free-speech-haven-lawless-cesspool)
|passage=The growing use of social media to spread anger and dissent in the
Arab world has been hailed by western governments as one of the chief
justifications for a completely unfettered internet. The US is reportedly
funding the secret rollout of technology in Iran in an effort to UNDERMINE
internet censors in the country.}}
1. * [en]
2. To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water.
3. * [en]
4. [en] To regard an object as the sum of the parts that compose it, in [object-oriented ontology] .
5. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2022 | author=Nicholas Gayle | title=Conrad and the Being of the World | page=25
|passage=We can even go further: when we consider an object in everyday life
we do not usually just UNDERMINE or overmine it as if it demanded an either/or
approach, but rather we run the two processes in tandem: duomining, as Harman
labels it.}}
**** Antonyms
- [en]
**** Translations
[hinder, sabotage]
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- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Latin: [la]
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- Welsh: [cy]
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[to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Latin: [la]
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- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
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- Italian: [it]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
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*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
- [R:Lexico]
*** Anagrams
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