undermine

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Yes, it will get worse, and yes it will undermine Googles core product.

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Quick take

destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of undermine gathered in one view.

verb

destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"

verb

hollow out as if making a cave or opening; "The river was caving the banks"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for undermine.

verb

destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"

verb

hollow out as if making a cave or opening; "The river was caving the banks"

Example sentences

Yes, it will get worse, and yes it will undermine Googles core product.

It serves to undermine the person it's said about.

But courage is what it takes to undermine a dictatorship.

Rather than give her support, he decided to undermine her.

Just goes to show that if you undermine a universal right for even one person, that right disappears.

That doesn't mean that I'm a mean nasty violator out to undermine free enterprise, it means that software patents suck.

That we undermine the values of our society and provide incentives for extralegal defense?

But the teacher, based on the report here, is just asking his students to think about their lessons and what those lessons mean, not trying to undermine the survey process.

When there is a clear incentive to discover the truth, objective assessments undermine prejudice rather than promoting it.

You seriously undermine your ability to get any reference from someone working there and, honestly, this tends to make whoever is slinging mud look bad as well.

The hacker community should not contribute to the knowledge of those who work to undermine privacy and feed the surveillance-industrial complex.

But governing takes common sense, and whatever they have is shattered by lobbyists who's only job is to undermine common-sense with smooth-sounding arguments - or, if that doesn't work, threats of withdrawing campaign support.

By scraping craigslist in an attempt to undermine their platform you are eliminating their site's relatively utility for buyers, which eliminates the impetus for sellers to list there.

The theory is that Microsoft and/or Apple somehow infiltrated the Ubuntu organization and got their men in as developers and made big changes to sabotage and undermine the Ubuntu project.

"It’s OK for Google to undermine Microsoft’s for-pay OS licensing business by giving Android away for free, but it’s not OK for Microsoft to undermine Google’s attempts to give away for free an OS that violates patents belonging to Microsoft?