minar
erode ; undermine ; sap ; gnaw (at) ; undercut ; whittle (away/down/at) ; hollow out.
These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
Furthermore, the value of citation bibliometry is currently being undermined by the formation of 'citation clubs', which aim to indiscriminately achieve maximum cross-citing between 'club members'.
First the desire to read is sapped, then the will, and finally stamina to tackle anything but short, and immediately useful, passages.
The rugby league is increasingly beset by a financial reward system that gnaws at its prime resource - the players.
The effects of liberalization threaten to undercut the delivery of a long cherished social objective.
However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.
The Irish President said last night that Irish society is being hollowed out by individualism.
minar la confianza en Uno mismo
undermine + self-confidence
As part of an imported culture libraries may be associated with influences undermining traditional values and self-confidence and with the propagation of negative values such as consumerism.
minar los valores tradicionales
undermine + traditional values
As part of an imported culture libraries may be associated with influences undermining traditional values and self-confidence and with the propagation of negative values such as consumerism.
minar + Posesivo + confianza
undermine + Posesivo + confidence
erode + Posesivo + confidence
sap + Posesivo + confidence
He can experiment without anxiety because at each trial the new material can be supported by the old so that his confidence is not undermined if it fails.
At first, analyzing the way he went about his work eroded his confidence, threw him off balance, dimmed some of his energetic spirit.
This ideology subordinated all women by belittling their achievements, sapping their confidence, and convincing them that they were really inferior to men.
