undermines
- 1Third-person singular simple present of undermine.
The minister's prolonged silence undermines public confidence in the new policy.
Each fresh leak undermines the company's credibility a little further.
Note
The -s form carries every use of the verb, from the literal to the philosophical. Water undermines a riverbank by eating away at its base. A besieging army undermines a wall by digging beneath it. A rumor undermines trust. In object-oriented ontology the word is technical: a theory that undermines an object treats it as nothing more than the sum of its parts. The past form is undermined.
undermines 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 → undermines: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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