undercut
/ˌʌn·dərˈkʌt/ v [T] (present participle undercutting, past tense and past participle undercut)Definition
› to weaken, damage, or cause the failure of something; undermine: He's got a plan, so I don't want to undercut the effort that he has underway. › To undercut is also to charge less than a competitor: Large supermarkets can undercut their smaller rivals.
(Definition of undercut v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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