2 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
weaken gradually
- "To get their own bread they must overdose the king's lieges; and that's a bad sort of treason, Mr. Mawmsey—undermines the constitution in a fatal way."Book 5 — The Dead Hand (13% in)
- If the truth should be that some undermining disease was at work within him, there might be large opportunity for some people to be the happier when he was gone; and if one of those people should be Will Ladislaw, Mr. Casaubon objected so strongly that it seemed as if the annoyance would make part of his disembodied existence.Book 4 — Three Love Problems (92% in)
There are no more uses of "undermine" in Middlemarch.
Typical Usage
(best examples)