undermined
- 1Simple past and past participle of undermine.
Repeated leaks undermined public trust in the agency over several months.
Her authority was steadily undermined by the new manager's interference.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the simple past (leaks undermined trust) and the past participle, which follows have in the perfect or be in the passive, where a by-phrase names the cause. Alongside the figurative 'weaken' meaning, the literal ones survive: a wall undermined by sappers, a cliff undermined by water. In object-oriented ontology, an object is undermined when it is treated as merely the sum of its parts.
undermined is a form of undermine
undermine, verb: To weaken or work against something; to hinder or sabotage it, often by indirect or gradual means. Full entry
- Forms
- undermineundermines he/she/itundermining -ing formundermined past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- undermine → undermined: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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