undermine

Other forms of undermine

past tense

undermined·

present participle

undermining·

third person

undermines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about undermine

What does undermine mean?

undermine means "destroy property or hinder normal operations". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in undermine?

undermine has 3 syllables: un-der-mine. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚˌmaɪn/.

What is another word for undermine?

Close synonyms include sabotage, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is undermine a common word?

undermine is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with undermine?

5 words rhyme with undermine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.