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minus-squareStovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up68·19 hours agoIt never occurred to me that the origins of the word “undermine” might have involved actual mining.
minus-squareinv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 hours 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-down1·11 hours agoDoes it suggest one can overmine?
minus-squaresawdustprophet@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 hours ago Does it suggest one can overmine? “I overstand.”
minus-squareCheeryLBottom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·15 hours agosmacks forehead I never thought of that
minus-squarebrrtlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·18 hours agoI see you understand now. Wait. Under stand? I don’t…
It never occurred to me that the origins of the word “undermine” might have involved actual mining.
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!
smacks forehead I never thought of that
I see you understand now. Wait. Under stand? I don’t…