İngilizce-Türkçe-Almanca sözlük

1. 1. (yavaş yavaş/sinsice) zarar vermek: Years of dissipation had undermined his health. Yıllarca süren sefahat sağlığına zarar vermişti. Their activities are undermining the authority of the state. Onların faaliyetleri devletin otoritesini sarsıyor.
2. (bir şeyin) altındaki toprağı kazarak çıkarmak; (bir şeyin) altındaki toprağı oymak. baltalamak, yikmak, el altindan çökertmeye çalismak; temelini çürütmek. altını kaz. altını kaz.
3. (yavaş yavaş/sinsice) zarar vermek: Years of dissipation had undermined his health. Yıllarca süren sefahat sağlığına zarar vermişti. Their. altını kazmak, baltalamak, sarsmak. baltalamak; temelini çürütmek. Bir duvarı yıkmak için altını kazmak, lağım.
4. altını kaz, zayıflatmak; el altından mahvına çalışmak; düşürmek, ayağını kaydırmak; altına lâğım kazmak, altını kazmak.
5. baltalamak. yıkmak. el altından çökertmeye çalışmak. temelini çürütmek.
6. altını kazmak. altına lağım kazmak. el altından yıkmaya çalışmak. ayağını kaydırmak. düşürmek. zayıflatmak.
7. altını kaz.

1. dig under, dig under the foundations of; slowly weaken or injure; sabotage, subvert. undermine\un`der*mine"\ , v. t.
2. 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. a vast rock undermined from one end to the other, and a highway running through it.
3. 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. he should be warned who are like to undermine him.undermine v.
4. destroy property or hinder normal operations; "the resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war" [syn: sabotage, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken].
5. hollow out as if making a cave or opening; "the river was caving the banks" [syn: cave].
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 1. If you undermine something such as a feeling or a system, you make it less strong or less secure than it was before, often by a gradual process or by repeated efforts. Offering advice on each and every problem will undermine her feeling of being adult Western intelligence agencies are accused of trying to undermine the government.
9. If you undermine someone or undermine their position or authority, you make their authority or position less secure, often by indirect methods. She undermined him and destroyed his confidence in his own talent The conversations were designed to undermine her authority so she felt that she could no longer work for the company.
10. If you undermine someone's efforts or undermine their chances of achieving something, you behave in a way that makes them less likely to succeed. The continued fighting threatens to undermine efforts to negotiate an agreement. to gradually make someone or something less strong or effective.