Usually means: Weakens or damages foundation or credibility.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. undermines: Merriam-Webster
  2. undermines: Collins English Dictionary
  3. undermines: Vocabulary.com
  4. Undermines, undermines: Wordnik
  5. undermines: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. undermines: Wiktionary
  7. undermines: Dictionary.com
  8. undermines: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. undermines: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. undermines: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. undermines: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. undermines: Medical dictionary

(Note: See undermine as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (undermine)

verb:  To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
verb:  (figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
verb:  To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water.
verb:  (philosophy) To regard an object as the sum of the parts that compose it, in object-oriented ontology.
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