undermine - use in sentences

Object

  • credibility: Comments: Does blog marketing undermine the credibility it depends on?
  • confidence: Nothing has done more to undermine public confidence in the pensions system than the losses felt by those honest, decent people.
  • morale: Never knowing if you were going to be the next target did a great deal to undermine morale in the RIC.
  • viability: In fact ' outreach surgical camps ' in these areas undermine the viability of these sustainable services.

Used with why or when

  • what: Does it undermine what Public Enemy is all about?

Subject

  • failure: At present this confidence is being undermined by the failure to develop software that can perform this calculation.

Present participle complement

  • exist: The creation of working class intellectuals helping to create counter hegemony to undermine existing social relations should be an SSP goal.

Modifying Another Word

  • seriously: At a stroke urban regeneration in England was seriously undermined.
  • severely: In this event, NATO, which has kept the peace in Europe for many years, would be severely undermined.
  • fundamentally: The Key Worker will then determine whether there is a need for an urgent Core Group meeting or whether the plan is fundamentally undermined.

Used with why or when

  • when: But with lists and tables widely available, their raison d'etre is undermined when not as accurate as possible.

Preposition: by

  • lack: Put at its simplest, the health of too many people living with HIV in the UK is being undermined by lack of income.
  • failure: At present this confidence is being undermined by the failure to develop software that can perform this calculation.

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