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Undermine Efforts Chances Someone's Achieving Behave Makes Succeed

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If you u________ someone's efforts or undermine their chances of achieving something, you behave in a way that makes them less likely to succeed .If you undermine someone's efforts or undermine their chances of achieving something, you behave in a way that makes them less likely to succeed .
The continued fighting threatens to undermine efforts to negotiate an agreement.
I don't want to do something that would undermine the chances of success.
word undermine
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verb
If you undermine something such as a feeling or a system, you make it less strong or less secure than it was before, often by a gradual process or by repeated efforts .
Offering advice on each and every problem will undermine her feeling of being adult.
Western intelligence agencies are accused of trying to undermine the government.
If you undermine someone or undermine their position or authority, you make their authority or position less secure, often by indirect methods .
She undermined him and destroyed his confidence in his own talent.
The conversations were designed to undermine her authority.
If you undermine someone's efforts or undermine their chances of achieving something, you behave in a way that makes them less likely to succeed .
The continued fighting threatens to undermine efforts to negotiate an agreement.
I don't want to do something that would undermine the chances of success.
inflections underminesunderminingundermined
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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