undermine
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
destroy property or hinder normal operations
The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- sabotage derivation
Sense 2 verb
hollow out as if making a cave or opening
The river was caving the banks
Types & categories
- hollow out hypernym
- sap hyponym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sabotage |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | disobey |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | derail |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | hollow out |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | sap |