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undermining Meaning in Korean (undermining ์˜์–ด ๋œป)

noun์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ
adjective์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š”
์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ in English:undermining
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undermining์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋œป์€ ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ, ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š”์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€, ์ข…์ข… ๋ฏธ๋ฌ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ํ‰ํŒ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ถŒ์œ„๋ฅผ ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์†์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ณผ์ • ๋˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„.)

Definitions of Undermining

  1. 1
    noun
    ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ

    The process or act of gradually weakening or damaging someone or something, often subtly, such as a reputation or an authority.

    ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€, ์ข…์ข… ๋ฏธ๋ฌ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ํ‰ํŒ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ถŒ์œ„๋ฅผ ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์†์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ณผ์ • ๋˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„.

  2. 2
    adjective
    ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š”

    Having the effect of gradually eroding the strength, effectiveness, or stability of something.

    ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€์˜ ํž˜, ํšจ๊ณผ ๋˜๋Š” ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์นจ์‹ํ•˜๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๋Š”.

Example Sentences

casual

โ€œHis constant criticism was undermining her confidence.โ€

๊ทธ์˜ ๋Š์ž„์—†๋Š” ๋น„ํŒ์€ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

business

โ€œThe scandal had an undermining effect on the company's reputation.โ€

๊ทธ ์Šค์บ”๋“ค์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ช…์„ฑ์— ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์ณค๋‹ค.

formal

โ€œThey accused him of undermining the democratic process.โ€

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์  ๊ณผ์ •์„ ์•ฝํ™”์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋น„๋‚œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Synonyms (์œ ์˜์–ด)

In English:

weakeningsubvertingerodingimpairing

Antonyms (๋ฐ˜์˜์–ด)

In English:

strengtheningsupportingreinforcingbolstering

Inflected Word Forms

infinitiveundermine
third person singularundermines
past tenseundermined
agent noununderminer

Phrases & Idiomatic Expressions

undermine confidencecollocation

To gradually reduce someone's self-assurance or belief in themselves.

undermine authoritycollocation

To gradually reduce the power or respect for someone's position.

undermine effortscollocation

To weaken or sabotage attempts or hard work towards a goal.

Undermining Meaning in Korean (์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ) | DictBridge Dictionary