Many fear that cuts in the defense budget will undermine the military's effectiveness.
Source: tatoeba (710970)
Undermine
//ˌʌn.dəˈmaɪn//
Synonyms for "undermine" (118 found)
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Translations
80 translations across 29 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- подкопавам verb (hinder, sabotage)
- подкопавам verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
Catalan
3 entries- minar verb (hinder, sabotage)
- soscavar verb (hinder, sabotage)
- soscavar verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
Czech
2 entries- podkopávat verb (hinder, sabotage)
- podkopávat verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
Danish
3 entries- undergrave verb (hinder, sabotage)
- undergrave verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
- underminere verb (hinder, sabotage)
Dutch
3 entries- ondergraven verb (hinder, sabotage)
- ondermijnen verb (hinder, sabotage)
- ontwrichten verb (hinder, sabotage)
Esperanto
2 entries- subfosi verb (hinder, sabotage)
- subfosi verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
Finnish
4 entries- heikentää verb (hinder, sabotage)
- kaivaa alle verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
- kaivaa maata alta verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
- sabotoida verb (hinder, sabotage)
French
2 entries- saper verb (hinder, sabotage)
- saper verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
German
4 entries- schwächen verb (hinder, sabotage)
- untergraben verb (hinder, sabotage)
- untergraben verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
- unterlaufen verb (hinder, sabotage)
Greek
2 entries- υπονομεύω verb (hinder, sabotage)
- υποσκάπτω verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
Hebrew
1 entries- חתר תחת verb (hinder, sabotage)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- áb-ab verb (hinder, sabotage)
Hungarian
3 entries- aláaknáz verb (hinder, sabotage)
- aláaknáz verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
- aláás verb (hinder, sabotage)
Italian
4 entries- compromettere verb (hinder, sabotage)
- minacciare verb (hinder, sabotage)
- minare verb (hinder, sabotage)
- ostacolare verb (hinder, sabotage)
Latin
2 entries- surruō verb (hinder, sabotage)
- surruō verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
Middle English
1 entries- underdelven verb (hinder, sabotage)
Māori
3 entries- whakahāwea verb (hinder, sabotage)
- whakararu verb (hinder, sabotage)
- whakararuraru verb (hinder, sabotage)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- undergrave verb (hinder, sabotage)
- undergrave verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
- underminere verb (hinder, sabotage)
- underminere verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بالطهلامق verb (hinder, sabotage)
Persian
1 entries- تضعیف کردن verb (hinder, sabotage)
Portuguese
4 entries- minar verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
- prejudicar verb (hinder, sabotage)
- sabotar verb (hinder, sabotage)
- solapar verb (hinder, sabotage)
Romanian
3 entries- submina verb (hinder, sabotage)
- surpa verb (hinder, sabotage)
- săpa verb (hinder, sabotage)
Russian
4 entries- подка́пывать verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
- подкопа́ть verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
- подорва́ть verb (hinder, sabotage)
- подры́ть verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- potkopati verb (hinder, sabotage)
- potkopavati verb (hinder, sabotage)
- поткопавати verb (hinder, sabotage)
- поткопати verb (hinder, sabotage)
Spanish
4 entries- armar tranquilla verb (hinder, sabotage)
- desvirtuar verb (hinder, sabotage)
- socavar verb (hinder, sabotage)
- socavar verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
Swedish
2 entries- undergräva verb (hinder, sabotage)
- underminera verb (hinder, sabotage)
Turkish
1 entries- baltalamak verb (hinder, sabotage)
Ukrainian
4 entries- перешкоджа́ти verb (hinder, sabotage)
- посла́блювати verb (hinder, sabotage)
- підко́пувати verb (to dig, tunnel, hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
- підрива́ти verb (hinder, sabotage)
Welsh
1 entries- tanseilio verb (hinder, sabotage)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
The market tends to undermine the very values that gave rise to it.
Source: tatoeba (1775304)
Tom hasn't got the chance to poison the atmosphere or undermine the love between Mary and her new lover.
Source: tatoeba (3499892)
Hackers were able to break into the company's computer system and undermine its network security.
Source: tatoeba (3746374)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.