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undermining

adjective

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noun

  1. weaken, not quantifiable, weaken from below
  2. surgically seperate from underlying structure
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. The act or process by which something is undermined.

    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.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of undermine

    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[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.