undermine · verb
Sens et exemples
Affaiblir progressivement la confiance, l'autorité ou l'efficacité de quelque chose.
Repeated unexplained delays undermined confidence in an organisation that had previously enjoyed strong support from residents.
She felt that correcting her publicly over minor details was undermining her authority with the team.
A policy can undermine its own purpose if the procedures it creates make participation unnecessarily difficult.
The inaccurate figures undermined the report's central argument, even though several of its wider observations remained useful.
Formes
- undermine base form
- undermines third-person singular present
- undermined past tense; past participle
- undermining present participle