Undermine is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UNDERMINE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to dig beneath (e.g. a wall) in order to make it fall, also UNDERMINDE
• erode the base or foundation of (a rock formation)
• dig or excavate beneath (a building or fortification) so as to make it collapse
• lessen the effectiveness, power, or ability of, especially gradually or insidiously
• weaken gradually
• 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.
• Fig.: 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.
• destroy property or hinder normal operations
• hollow out as if making a cave or opening
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to excavate the earth beneath; form a mine under; sap

Words related to UNDERMINE

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Words that contain UNDERMINE

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How to use UNDERMINE in a sentence

• He was hostile too, in his heart, to the very philosophers whom he invited to his table, and knew that they sought to undermine his power.
• The plan was to favour the growth of new rationalistic cults, and to undermine revealed religion by a secular system of education.
• A bill is to come before the Senate before very long which is framed purposely to undermine our power.
• We must do what we can in an underhand way to undermine him with Cousin Hamilton.
• Think not I do intend to undermine, Your passed lives, although you know I am A man to whom the true unpartiall sworde, Of equall justice is delivered.
• The third injunction on the card was one which seemed to me, if interpreted exactly and according to its words, to undermine the very foundations of our politics.
• It only wanted for the diversity of my career that I should have served a term as a demi-official of the Turkish government I had served to undermine.
• These unheard-of objections of his are levelled at the fundamental principles of the established practice and calculated to undermine it.
• Moushegh ruled Armenia with vigor, but was suspected of maintaining over-friendly relations with the Roman emperor, Valens, and of designing to undermine and supplant his master.
• Thus some of them stood on this platform and fought as though from a mound, while others, concealed inside, tried to undermine the walls.
• Civilis now gave up hope of storming the camp and renewed a leisurely blockade, trying all the time by messages and offers of reward to undermine the loyalty of the legions.
• During this interval the assailants began to undermine the fort, beginning their tunnel at the river-bank.
• Six or seven per cent of slave population has not proved sufficient as a slave interest, to prostrate or corrupt its national fidelity, nor to undermine its national pride.
• The world only cares for impossible adventures and magic stories, or stories which undermine their religion or upset it altogether, and I am not clever enough for this.
• To have asked others to undertake a danger from which we shrank would have been to undermine our authority and sow the seeds of mutiny.
• CONCLUSION We have now followed the course of associations working throughout nineteen centuries to undermine social and moral order and above all Christian civilization.
• It cannot build up and strengthen character but threatens to undermine it by cultivating wrong motives.
• Finding, at length, that this must rapidly undermine the priestly influence, he secretly removed the Scriptures from the church.
• Canning, who considered it was intended to undermine the barriers which resisted the inroads of a more wide and sweeping innovation.
• As the receding wave swept back with a hoarse roar, it seemed to scoop out deep caves in the beach, as if its purpose were to undermine the earth.
• Up to this period in his public career, Cooper had certainly not done anything to undermine his popularity.
• Anything more certain to destroy energy, to cut at the roots of thrift, to undermine all the best qualities of manhood, it would be impossible to imagine.
• He would see more, much more of this taciturn young woman, force her to talk and, if possible, undermine her antipathy to himself.
• Later criticism of His personal conduct and habits with the despised classes is mingled with an attempt to work upon His disciples and undermine their loyalty.
• It is thus, bodies of water falling from the edge of the table land, seem to undermine the sandstone below, producing land slips, which occur in this manner year after year.
• There is a hint of the intrigues of the false Roman church and the treacherous Spanish king, Philip II, to undermine the religious and political freedom of the English people.
• He may claim and undermine the whole valley even, both the cultivated and the uncultivated portions, his whole life long in peace, for no one will ever dispute his claim.

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