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underminingnoun a gradual weakening, loss, or destructionthe view that the constant mudslinging and negative campaigning contributes to the undermining of the public's faith in politics and government underminingverbpresent participle of undermineto make (someone or something) weaker or less effective usually in a secret or gradual wayShe tried to undermine my authority by complaining about me to my boss. The events of the past year have undermined people's confidence in the government. deteriorating, enervating, enfeebling, weakeningblemishing, bloodying, breaking, compromising, crabbing, crippling, crossing (up), damaging, defacing, disfiguring, endamaging, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, marring, spoiling, vitiatingeroding, scouring, washing out, wearing (away)blighting, tarnishingdenting, dinging, dintingbotching, gumming (up), queeringlacerating, woundingdisabling, hamstringing, laming, maiming, mangling, mutilating, tormenting, torturingannihilating, banging up, bashing, battering, clobbering, crushing, dashing, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, pulverizing, razing, ruining, scourging, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling(or totalling), wasting, wiping out, wrecking curing, healing, helping, rectifying, rehabilitating, remedyingediting, remodeling, revisingameliorating, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfecting, refiningdoctoring, fixing, mending, patching, rebuilding, reconditioning, reconstructing, renovating, repairing, revamping |