0 to make someone less confident, less powerful, or less likely to succeed, or to make something weaker, often gradually -- （常指逐漸地）削弱信心、權威等，損害
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.
The trust of the settlement and residence parish was thereby undermined and the pauper became a problem.
It is conceivable that, through their actions over time, interest groups concretize a particular identity thereby undermining strategic adoption of new identities.
Yet this in no way undermined the trend towards greater political centralization.
