Underplay vs Undermine - What's the difference?
underplay | undermine |
The act of underplaying.
To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
(card games) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.
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 underplay and undermine
is that underplay is to play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part while undermine is to dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.As a noun underplay
is the act of underplaying.underplay
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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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