Undervalue vs Undermine - What's the difference?
undervalue | undermine |
To underestimate, or assign too low a value to.
To have too little regard for.
* Atterbury
* Dryden
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 undervalue and undermine
is that undervalue is to underestimate, or assign too low a value to while undermine is to dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.undervalue
English
Verb
- In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority.
- I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry.
Synonyms
* (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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