undermine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sap.

   “Martin, for instance, had on one occasion undermined a tree sacred to old gods, then stood in the path of its fall, but forced it to fall elsewhere by making the sign of the Cross.”

2. fiil To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.

   “The war efforts were undermined by the constant bickering between the allies.”

3. fiil To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water.
4. fiil To regard an object as the sum of the parts that compose it, in object-oriented ontology.

   “We can even go further: when we consider an object in everyday life we do not usually just undermine or overmine it as if it demanded an either/or approach, but rather we run the two processes in tandem: duomining, as Harman labels it.”