UNDERMINE Copy link • UNDERMINEPROP., suffodere (to hollow underneath by digging): subruere (general term, to overthrow from beneath; e.g., a wall): cuniculo or cuniculis subruere or subtrahere (to make a mine under for the purpose of destroying; e.g., a wall. ☞ Plin. uses cavare oppida crebris cuniculis). A town that is undermined, a cuniculis suffossum oppidum. Figuratively, subruere (to overthrow, destroy; e.g., libertatem): evertere (to overthrow; e.g., rempublicam): labefactare (to make to totter or fall; e.g., rempublicam, amicitiam, justitiam).