undermining Meaning in Korean (undermining ์์ด ๋ป)
undermining์ ํ๊ตญ์ด ๋ป์ ์ฝํ์ํค๊ธฐ, ์ฝํ์ํค๋์ ๋๋ค. (๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ๋๋ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ, ์ข ์ข ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ๊ฒ, ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ํํ์ด๋ ๊ถ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฝํ์ํค๊ฑฐ๋ ์์์ํค๋ ๊ณผ์ ๋๋ ํ์.)
Definitions of Undermining
- 1noun์ฝํ์ํค๊ธฐ
The process or act of gradually weakening or damaging someone or something, often subtly, such as a reputation or an authority.
๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ๋๋ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ, ์ข ์ข ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ๊ฒ, ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ํํ์ด๋ ๊ถ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฝํ์ํค๊ฑฐ๋ ์์์ํค๋ ๊ณผ์ ๋๋ ํ์.
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Example Sentences
โHis constant criticism was undermining her confidence.โ
๊ทธ์ ๋์์๋ ๋นํ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ฝํ์ํค๊ณ ์์๋ค.
โThe scandal had an undermining effect on the company's reputation.โ
๊ทธ ์ค์บ๋ค์ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ช ์ฑ์ ์ฝํ์ํค๋ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค๋ค.
โThey accused him of undermining the democratic process.โ
๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ ์ฝํ์์ผฐ๋ค๊ณ ๋น๋ํ๋ค.
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To gradually reduce someone's self-assurance or belief in themselves.
To gradually reduce the power or respect for someone's position.
To weaken or sabotage attempts or hard work towards a goal.