What is another word for undermined?
96 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˌʌndəmˈa͡ɪnd], [ ˌʌndəmˈaɪnd], [ ˌʌ_n_d_ə_m_ˈaɪ_n_d]
Undermined is a word that describes the act of weakening or damaging something or someone, often covertly. Synonyms for undermined include sabotaged, subverted, eroded, compromised, hindered, weakened, destabilized, undercut, and crippled. When a political candidate's reputation is damaged by false accusations, it can lead to their campaign being sabotaged. Subversion can occur when a group seeks to overthrow a government or authority. Erosion can happen over time due to weather or other natural forces. A company that fails to meet its financial targets can become destabilized, while an employee may be compromised by being blackmailed. All of these words convey a sense of damage done that may not be immediately apparent.
Synonyms for Undermined:
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adj.
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v.
• disabled- Abrogated ,
- Disarmed ,
- Hampered ,
- Hamstrung ,
- Hindered ,
- Hobbled ,
- Lamed ,
- Prostrated ,
- Sapped ,
- Scotched ,
- Tampered ,
- anesthetized ,
- benumbed ,
- botched ,
- cramped ,
- crippled ,
- deadened ,
- disabled ,
- dulled ,
- enfeebled ,
- handicapped ,
- impaired ,
- incapacitated ,
- invalidated ,
- neutralized ,
- paralyzed ,
- screwed up ,
- stunned ,
- stupefied ,
- vitiated ,
- weakened .
Other relevant words:
- Antagonized ,
- Burrowed ,
- Caved ,
- Counteracted ,
- Damped ,
- Dampened ,
- Derailed ,
- Dinted ,
- Excavated ,
- Gouged ,
- Subverted ,
- Supplanted ,
- Tunneled ,
- Tunnelled ,
- antagonised ,
- attenuated ,
- corroded ,
- corrupted ,
- counterbalanced ,
- damage ,
- damaged ,
- deciduous ,
- deleterious ,
- demolished ,
- dented ,
- destruction ,
- disaffect ,
- disappoint ,
- discourage ,
- disenchant ,
- disrupted ,
- dysfunctional ,
- eroded ,
- fatigued ,
- harm ,
- harmed ,
- hopeless ,
- impair ,
- injured ,
- mined ,
- overturned ,
- prejudiced ,
- reduced ,
- retrograde ,
- retrogressive ,
- ruined ,
- sabotaged ,
- shake ,
- softened ,
- tottering ,
- undermine ,
- weaken ,
- wrecked .
How to use "Undermined" in context?
When people talk about a person or thing being undermined, it often means that that person or thing is no longer respected or taken seriously. This can be due to a number of factors, such as bad publicity, poor decision-making, or simply being surrounded by more powerful or influential people. When a person or thing is undermined, it can have a significant impact on their overall stature.
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Verb, past tense
affected, assaulted, belittled, blocked, breached, broke, compromise, constrain, cut, damaged, decreased, demolished, dented, depressed, destroyed, diluted, diminished, disadvantage, discouraged, dropped, eased, engaged, fell, foiled, hamper, hurt, impacted, impede, impeded, implicated, inhibited, initiated, invalidated, lessened, limited, lowered, mina, mine, mined, mitigated, narrowed, neutralized, night, opened, plagued, played, preferred, prejudice, reduced, shocked, shook, stifled, struck, tarnished, threatened, touched, trimmed, violated, wrecked, Achieved, Began, Brought, Caused, Challenged, Dampened, Declined, Derogated, Detracted, Discounted, Embarked, Enriched, Entered, Got, Influenced, Instigated, Instituted, Interfered, Launched, Looked, Met, Reached, Rocked, Shrugged, Underwent, Undertook, Waned, Weighed, Commenced, Compromised, Contradicted, Curtailed, Prevented, Proceeded, started, Prejudices, reduces, touches, breaches, vandalized, HIT, destabilized, sabotaged, diagnosed, jeopardised, uprooted, downplayed.
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Verb, past participle
abused, accomplished, affected, afflicted, aggravated, aggrieved, agitated, allotted, altered, annoyed, appalled, appropriated, assaulted, assigned, assured, attached, attained, barred, battered, beset, biased, blocked, blown, blunted, bound, breached, broken, buffeted, burdened, burned, called, centred, collapsed, committed, complicated, concerned, confined, confounded, confused, constrained, consumed, contaminated, contested, contracted, converted, corroded, corrupted, credited, crippled, crushed, cut, damaged, dashed, debilitated, decreased, dedicated, defeated, deferred, delayed, demolished, denatured, dented, depleted, depressed, deprived, destroyed, devalued, devastated, devoted, diluted, diminished, directed, disabled, disadvantaged, discouraged, dispatched, disposed, disputed, disregarded, distorted, distracted, distributed, disturbed, donated, doomed, dressed, dropped, eased, effected, emasculated, embarrassed, employed, encumbered, endangered, engaged, enhanced, evaporated, exposed, failed, fallen, fined, flawed, focused, focussed, forfeited, frustrated, fulfilled, furnished, given, guaranteed, handed, handicapped, honoured, horrified, hunted, hurt, ignored, impacted, impeded, implicated, infected, inhibited, initiated, injured, interrupted, intimidated, involved, kept, led, left, lessened, limited, loosened, lost, lowered, marked, marred, mined, minimized, mired, missed, mitigated, mortgaged, narrowed, neglected, nullified, obligated, observed, obstructed, offset, opened, overturned, penalised, penalized, perturbed, placed, plagued, pledged, posted, postponed, prejudice, prejudiced, presented, pressed, promised, punished, put, raped, ravaged, realized, recast, recovered, reduced, released, respected, restored, restrained, restricted, reversed, ruined, scorned, secured, shackled, shaken, shattered, shed, shocked, shortened, shrunk, skewed, skinned, slashed, spent, stifled, stopped, strained, stricken, struck, stunted, suppressed, surrendered, surrounded, swamped, tainted, taken, tarnished, tempered, thinned, threatened, thwarted, tied, torn, touched, trampled, transmitted, troubled, turned, undone, unsettled, unspecified, upended, upset, vexed, victimized, violated, vitiated, wasted, weathered, wedded, wired, won, worn, worsened, wounded, wronged, Abated, Achieved, Adhered, Amplified, Annulled, Asked, Attacked, Attributed, Averted, Awarded, Borne, Bedevilled, Begun, Brought, Carried, Caused, Challenged, Channelled, Circumvented, Dealt, Declined, Delivered, Denied, Deployed, Derailed, Deteriorated, Detracted, Discounted, Discriminated, Dwindled, Earmarked, Embarked, Embraced, Entered, Exported, Fought, Flouted, Forestalled, Forgiven, Forwarded, Hampered, Hamstrung, Hobbled, Imperilled, Impinged, Influenced, Instituted, Issued, Launched, Lodged, Met, Menaced, Overridden, Overruled, Quashed, Queried, Questioned, Raided, Reached, Remitted, Resulted, Returned, Rocked, Sacrificed, Sapped, Seconded, Short-circuited, Slated, Slipped, Slowed, Tackled, Tasked, Transferred, Trumped, Undergone, Undertaken, Upheld, Warned, Combated, Commenced, Comprised, Compromised, Contradicted, Contravened, Counteracted, Curtailed, Precluded, Prevented, Provided, Stalled, Stationed, started, Submitted, Subsided, Subverted, Suffered, Supplied, Swayed, negated, irked, countered, circulated, ensured, safeguarded, allocated, braked, vandalized, HIT, destabilized, sabotaged, outweighed, reconsidered, diagnosed, downsized, stymied, reassigned, laid, endeavoured, jeopardised, paralysed, retarded, criminalized, criminalised, destabilised, tappedthe.
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