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Definition
weaken gradually
- If the cadre discovered it or sensed its undermining presence, then they would come for me and they would come united.Chapter 2.17 (27% in)
- Lonely," he declared in an undermined voice.Chapter 1.2 (92% in)
- We feel that this attitude could only harm the freshmen and undermine the plebe system.Chapter 1.5 (57% in)
- "Yes, sir," he said in a softer voice, but one dangerously strained and undermined by the pressure of his first two days.Chapter 1.8 (69% in)
- The long blades of Spartina grass sliced our barelegs, and the marsh was undermined by the immensity of our herded, desperate weight.Chapter 2.16 (35% in)
- The scorched lawn of autumn took on a look of savage thirst, and even the parade ground, that most tended and pampered of meadows, had an undermined greenness about it.Chapter 3.22 (1% in)
- The beach house was a three-story Victorian structure painted a dark and depressing gray and set thirty yards back from the groin protecting the undermined beach.Chapter 3.29 (34% in)
There are no more uses of "undermine" in The Lords of Discipline.
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