Underestimate vs Undermine - What's the difference?
underestimate | undermine |
To perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than what he/she/it actually has.
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.
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As verbs the difference between underestimate and undermine
is that underestimate is to perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than what he/she/it actually has while undermine is to dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.As a noun underestimate
is an estimate or perception that is too low.underestimate
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(underestimat)Synonyms
* misunderestimate * misjudgeAntonyms
* (to perceive as having lower value) overestimateSynonyms
* underestimationSee also
* (wikipedia underestimate)undermine
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(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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