0 present participle of undermine
1 to make someone less confident, less powerful, or less likely to succeed, or to make something weaker, often gradually:
A succession of scandals and revelations has undermined the government over the past year.
Suddenly she just turned on me and accused me of undermining her.
The country's economic position has been seriously undermined by this affair.
He's been trying to undermine her position by spreading rumours about her.
If you continually criticize children you can seriously undermine their confidence.
It is conceivable that, through their actions over time, interest groups concretize a particular identity thereby undermining strategic adoption of new identities.
Another element undermining the total control exercised by central government was the question of corruption.
By 1700, the gradual introduction of coin and more commercial exchanges were undermining the royal control of such exchanges.
