0 to do sth that makes sth or sb seem weaker, feel less confident, etc. -- undergrave
1 to weaken (eg a person’s health or authority) -- undergrave
2 to make (eg a building) insecure by digging away or destroying the base or foundations -- undergrave, underminere
I argue that the number-of-genes problem may nevertheless undermine the scientifically viability of this weaker adaptationist research strategy.
The invasion thus destroyed the government's strategic policy, and undermined the political order on which the policy itself was based.
But they remained too few and too scattered to undermine the left or to prevent the government's devastating crackdown on the union in 1985-86.
Consider another hypothetical world in which many but not all parents of cloned children undermine their self-esteem.
By 1700, the gradual introduction of coin and more commercial exchanges were undermining the royal control of such exchanges.
If this tool is subsumed by other cultural influences, then the exclusive base of a country's nationalism will be undermined.
This then reduces the vigour and 'bounce' of the elastic recoil and undermines the integrity of a breathing pattern set at birth.
Proposals for egalitarian redistribution are frequently objected to on the grounds that they will undermine incentives to work and invest in human capital.
