undermining

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undermining

noun underminings

  1. countable, uncountable The act or process by which something is undermined. The piece, titled You, calls up many references from the past and the present: from Michael Heizer's earthworks to Chris Burden's institutional underminings to Monica Bonvicini's simulations of the same.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of undermine The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be be

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Closest in meaning: sabotage, subvert, counteract, weaken, countermine, cave, subversion, derailing, thwarting, disruption, vandalism, hampering, deactivation, hindering, encroaching, destruction

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@misc{undermining_2026,
  title = {undermining},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/undermining},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}