Underlying vs Undermining - What's the difference?
underlying | undermining |
lying underneath
basic or fundamental
implicit
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The act or process by which something is undermined.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 23, author=The New York Times, title=Art in Review, work=New York Times
, passage=The piece, titled You , calls up many references from the past and the present: from Michael Heizer's earthworks to Chris Burden's institutional underminings to Monica Bonvicini's simulations of the same. }}
As an adjective underlying
is lying underneath.As a verb undermining is
.As a noun undermining is
the act or process by which something is undermined.underlying
English
Adjective
(-)- We dug down to the underlying rock.
- Points and straight lines are underlying elements of geometry.
- Many nursery rhymes have an underlying meaning.
Anagrams
*undermining
English
Verb
(head)The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you
Noun
(en noun)citation