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undermine Verb [-mining, -mined] 1. to weaken gradually or insidiously: morphia had undermined his grasp of reality 2. (of the sea or wind) to wear away the base of cliffs
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| There are five particulars in which, under fair pretences, the rich craftily endeavour to undermine the rights of the people, these are their public assemblies, their offices of state, their courts of justice, their military power, and their gymnastic exercises. I had had confidential agents trickling through the country some time, whose office was to undermine knighthood by imperceptible degrees, and to gnaw a little at this and that and the other superstition, and so prepare the way gradually for a better order of things. I leave every man to decide whether the result of any one of these experiments can be said to countenance a suspicion, that a diffusive mode of choosing representatives of the people tends to elevate traitors and to undermine the public liberty. |
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undermine - destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"
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