undermine verb 1.weaken,sabotage,subvert,compromise,disable,debilitate,disempowerThey are accused of trying to undermine the government. weakenpromote,sustain,strengthen,reinforce,fortify 2.damage,weaken,threaten,hurt,injure,impair,sap,put the kibosh on(informal),throw a spanner in the works of(Brit....
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Much discussion of meaning by philosophers over the last 300 years has been predicated on a Cartesian first-person authority (i.e. "infallibilism") with respect to what one's terms mean. However this has problems making sense of the way the meanings of scientific terms develop , an increas...
Academics have been reconsidering the meaning of “wilderness" and its usefulness to conservation strategies. The idea of pristine wilderness is historically inaccurate, argue scholars of Native American history, who have demonstrated that Native Americans shaped their environments with their agricultural pra...
Through Sisyphus's endless task of pushing a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll down again, Camus critically reflects on the absurdity of human effort. This effort, which is meaningless and endless, symbolizes the struggle many face in a world devoid of inherent meaning. The Power of ...
is based on Abraham Lincoln’s principle that “you can fool all the people some of the time, and some people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” But government control of the media undermines Lincoln’s logic, because it prevents citizens from realizing...
/ mI5steIk; mE`stek/ v (pt mistook / mI5stUk; mEs`tJk/,pp mistaken / mIs5teIkEn; mE`stekEn/) 1 [Tn, Tw] be wrong or get a wrong idea about (sb/sth) 弄错、误解或误会(某人)或(某事物)的意思: I must have mistaken your meaning/what you meant. 我一定误会了你的意思. *| Don...
Hunt gave a brief nod to Colin’s attempt to undermine everything, as if morbid disbelief was a natural by-product of adolescence, something to be grown out of. Masters and parents used to remind us irritatingly that they too had once been young, and so could speak with authority. It’...
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rear is used of buildings, conveyances, etc., and in military language it is the opposite of fore: the rear end of a truck; rear echelon. usage: Although some object to their use, the phrases in back of and the shorter - and much older - back of with the meaning “behind” are ...