Synonyms of the word undermine


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undermine

  • v. To dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
  • v. (figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.

cave

  • n. A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground, or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
  • n. A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
  • n. A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
  • n. A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
  • n. (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
  • n. (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
  • n. (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes…
  • n. (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
  • n. (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
  • n. (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular…
  • n. (obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
  • v. To surrender.
  • v. To collapse.
  • v. To hollow out or undermine.
  • v. To engage in the recreational exploration of caves; to spelunk.
  • v. (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been…
  • v. (mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
  • v. (obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
  • interj. (Britain, school slang) look out!; beware!

counteract

  • v. To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on.
  • v. To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate.

countermine

  • n. A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.
  • n. An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
  • n. A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.
  • v. To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.

disobey

  • v. (transitive) To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey an order of (somebody).
  • v. (intransitive) To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey.

hollow

  • n. A small valley between mountains.
  • n. A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
  • n. (US) A sunken area.
  • n. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
  • v. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate.
  • adj. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
  • adj. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
  • adj. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
  • adj. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
  • adj. concave; gaunt; sunken.
  • adj. (gymnastics) pertaining to hollow body position.
  • adv. (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
  • v. To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
  • interj. Alternative form of hollo.

sabotage

  • n. A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
  • n. (military) An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a…
  • v. to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.

subvert

  • v. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
  • v. (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
  • v. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
  • n. An advertisement created by subvertising.

weaken

  • v. (transitive) To make weaker.
  • v. (intransitive) To become weaker.

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