undermine

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verb

1. destroy property or hinder normal operations (Freq. 7)
- The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war
• Syn:
sabotage, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken
• Derivationally related forms:
sabotage (for: sabotage)
• Hypernyms:
disobey
• Hyponyms:
derail
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. hollow out as if making a cave or opening
- The river was caving the banks
• Syn:
cave
• Hypernyms:
hollow, hollow out, core out
• Hyponyms:
sap
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  cave, sabotage, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken