All 7 Uses of
undermine
in
The Lords of Discipline
- Lonely," he declared in an undermined voice.†
Chpt 1.2undermined = weakened gradually
- We feel that this attitude could only harm the freshmen and undermine the plebe system.†
Chpt 1.5undermine = weaken gradually
- "Yes, sir," he said in a softer voice, but one dangerously strained and undermined by the pressure of his first two days.†
Chpt 1.8undermined = weakened gradually
- The long blades of Spartina grass sliced our barelegs, and the marsh was undermined by the immensity of our herded, desperate weight.†
Chpt 2.16
- If the cadre discovered it or sensed its undermining presence, then they would come for me and they would come united.†
Chpt 2.17 *undermining = weakening gradually
- 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.†
Chpt 3.22undermined = weakened gradually
- 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.†
Chpt 3.29