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Definition of undermine in English Turkish dictionary
- 1. (yavaş yavaş/sinsice) zarar vermek: Years of dissipation had undermined his health. Yıllarca süren sefahat sağlığına zarar vermişti. Their
- kuyusunu kazmak
- el altından mahvına çalışmak
- {f} baltalamak
- altındaki toprağı oymak
- altını oymak
- yıkmak
- altını kaz
- el altından çökertmeye çalışmak
- temelini çürütmek
- (Askeri) BALTALAMAK; TEMELİNİ ÇÜRÜTMEK
- (Askeri) Bir duvarı yıkmak için altını kazmak, lağım
- {f} altını kazmak
- {f} sarsmak
- (Hukuk) yavaş yavaş yok etmek
- undermining
- altını oyma
- undermining
- oyulma
- undermining
- {i} boşveriş
- undermining
- afuyman
- undermining
- {f} boşver
- undermining
- boşvererek
- undermining
- zarar
Uyku eksikliği gizliden gizliye onun sağlığına zarar veriyordu.
-Lack of sleep was undermining her health.
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Definition of undermine in English English dictionary
- hinder, sabotage
The war efforts were undermined by the constant bickering between the allies.
- To dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening
- to subvert in an underhand way
- {v} to sap, injure secretly, destroy, ruin
- Fig
- hollow out as if making a cave or opening; "The river was caving the banks"
- If you undermine someone or undermine their position or authority, you make their authority or position less secure, often by indirect methods. She undermined him and destroyed his confidence in his own talent The conversations were designed to undermine her authority so she felt that she could no longer work for the company
- destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"
- If you undermine someone's efforts or undermine their chances of achieving something, you behave in a way that makes them less likely to succeed. The continued fighting threatens to undermine efforts to negotiate an agreement. to gradually make someone or something less strong or effective
- If you undermine something such as a feeling or a system, you make it less strong or less secure than it was before, often by a gradual process or by repeated efforts. Offering advice on each and every problem will undermine her feeling of being adult Western intelligence agencies are accused of trying to undermine the government
- To remove the foundation or support of by clandestine means; to ruin in an underhand way; as, to undermine reputation; to undermine the constitution of the state
- {f} dig under, dig under the foundations of; slowly weaken or injure; sabotage, subvert
- To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall
- undergird
- undermine a process
- sabotage a procedure, disrupt a proceeding
- undermine an ability
- sabotage a skill, damage an ability
- undermine an effort
- sabotage an attempt
- underminer
- {n} one that saps, a secret enemy
- To undermine
- undergrub
- undermined
- past of undermine
- underminer
- {i} that which or one who undermines; saboteur, subversive, one who weakens by underhanded means
- underminer
- One who undermines
- undermines
- third-person singular of undermine
- undermining
- Present participle of to undermine
- undermining
- {i} digging under; slowly or gradually causing weakness or damage
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