Mar vs Undermine - What's the difference?
mar | undermine |
To spoil, to damage.
* Dryden
* Milton
To dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 312:
(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 19, author=Josh Halliday, work=the Guardian
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As a noun mar
is sea.As a verb undermine is
to dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.mar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(marr)- But mirth is marred , and the good cheer is lost.
- Ire, envy, and despair / Which marred all his borrowed visage.
Etymology 2
See (m).Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l), (l) * (l) ----undermine
English
Verb
(undermin)- Martin, for instance, had on one occasion undermined a tree sacred to old gods, then stood in the path of its fall, but forced it to fall elsewhere by making the sign of the Cross.
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