undermine
uhn der mahyn
- v destroy property or hinder normal operations
- v hollow out as if making a cave or opening
- In fact, the political purpose of the Tel Aviv bombing was as much to undermine Hamas as it was to hurt Israel.
- Together with Reagan she pushed Mikhail Gorbachev to pursue his perestroika policy to its limits and so fatally to undermine the self-confidence of the Soviet elite.
- To teach faith as science is to undermine both .