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minus-squareStovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72·1 month agoIt never occurred to me that the origins of the word “undermine” might have involved actual mining.
minus-squarebrrt@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 month agoI see you understand now. Wait. Under stand? I don’t…
minus-squareCheeryLBottom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agosmacks forehead I never thought of that
minus-squareinv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoAnother use of undermine is when there’s flood and a river gets a ton of water going through it, it can undermine an overpass and take a bridge out without even going over it.
minus-squaregreenhorn@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 month agoDoes it suggest one can overmine?
minus-squaresawdustprophetlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month ago Does it suggest one can overmine? “I overstand.”
It never occurred to me that the origins of the word “undermine” might have involved actual mining.
I see you understand now. Wait. Under stand? I don’t…
smacks forehead I never thought of that
Another use of undermine is when there’s flood and a river gets a ton of water going through it, it can undermine an overpass and take a bridge out without even going over it.
Does it suggest one can overmine?
“I overstand.”
Unpossible!