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Meanings of undermine (undermines) in English
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Examples for "weaken"
Examples for "weaken"
1
Forty per cent said they expect the economy to weaken in 2012.
2
Ultimately, yes, we do think it will weaken in the longer term.
3
Analysts fear growing credit quickly could weaken asset quality and capital buffers.
4
We believe Lumena's aggressive expansion plans could weaken its business risk profile.
5
I have asked the police forces and security forces to never weaken.
1
James Marape said the prime minister was trying to sabotage the vote.
2
The Yemeni government accused the group of trying to sabotage the negotiations.
3
No one would be pleased with his sabotage; that was for certain.
4
It was sabotage, said an oil official, who declined to be nahmed.
5
Recruit some Freemen to add to our sabotage teams already at work.
1
Religious engagement, however, may counteract the damaging effects of early life stress.
2
It is important we counteract those words and thoughts with positive ones.
3
So, I suspect that Newton's first law is really to counteract Aristotle.
4
It was useless: they could not counteract the effects of the poison.
5
And its cultural role was to counteract the effects of women's liberation.
1
However, certain viruses can subvert the immune response to establish persistent infections.
2
Poet'Most organisations understand that they have to subvert their own received reality.
3
Romantic comedies have certain rules they either have to follow or subvert.
4
But the National embrace the obvious the more effectively to subvert it.
5
Viruses activate inflammasomes but then subvert resulting inflammatory responses to avoid elimination.
1
But Boon discovered the attempt, and sunk a trench as a countermine.
2
I remember exploding its American countermine once, under that grand hero, Napoleon.
3
The scheme was ingenious; but if the Senate could mine, Caesar could countermine.
4
After the brass basins were set up, they began to work on the countermine.
5
Best to get quite out of reach of a countermine.
Usage of undermines in English
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We believe outside interference exacerbates current divisions and undermines Libya's democratic transition.
2
The party says this undermines the spirit of free and fair elections.
3
But protesters say the law undermines labour rights and weakens environmental protections.
4
This undermines efforts to boost farming production and meet economic growth goals.
5
To not talk about this uncomfortable fact again only undermines Harry's message.
6
Additionally, the decline undermines the household and national food security and self-sufficiency.
7
It undermines whatever good he was planning to achieve in the magazine.
8
Even though the practice is lucrative, it undermines local artisanal fishing practices.
9
It undermines his constitution; it strikes at the foundation of his being.
10
Surely this increases the risk of Covid-19 transmission and undermines social distancing.
11
The strong yen undermines Japan's exporters by making their products less competitive.
12
It strangles trees, smothers meadows, undermines buildings, and pulls down power lines.
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It also undermines a key component of Dugan's management of the agency.
14
Gruesome mobile phone footage obtained by the Global Post undermines this account.
15
This anti-immigrant campaign undermines Ukip's claim not to be a racist party.
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Thus, their mode of action that undermines drug inhibition was not understood.
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Undermines through the time
Undermines across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common