Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To support or strengthen from beneath.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To gird round the bottom; gird beneath.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To bind below; to gird round the bottom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
strengthen ,secure , orreinforce by passing arope ,cable , orchain around theunderside of an object. - verb To give fundamental
support ;provide with asound orsecure basis; providesupportive evidence for . - verb To
lend moral support to . - verb To
secure below orunderneath .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make secure underneath
- verb lend moral support to
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many explanations have been suggested for the greater intolerance of more religiously observant people—that they are more likely to see the world in “we/they” or Manichaean terms, for example, or that moral absolutism—a clear distinction between right and wrong—is incompatible with the skeptical outlook that is said to undergird civic tolerance.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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This past summer, I had the opportunity to spend time with nearly 60 Teach For America corps members taking part in our Foundation's REALITY Israel Experience, a program that enables corps members to travel to Israel to explore the values that undergird their commitment to public service.
Lynn Schusterman: Creating A Jewish Culture Of Inclusivity Lynn Schusterman 2012
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Long-range commitment and expertise in state planning laid the groundwork for and continue to undergird today's economic boom.
Jeffrey W. Rubin: The Roots of Brazil's Success Jeffrey W. Rubin 2010
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The United States has a covert program to sabotage the systems that undergird Iran's nuclear facilities.
U.S. power plants at risk of attack by computer worm like Stuxnet Ellen Nakashima 2010
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A referendum, meanwhile, divorces approval of unpopular tax increases with that of any larger -- and more appealing -- budget compromise that they would undergird, stacking the deck against passage.
Stromberg: Wisconsin governor's -- and the GOP's -- strange 'budget discipline' 2011
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This past summer, I had the opportunity to spend time with nearly 60 Teach For America corps members taking part in our Foundation's REALITY Israel Experience, a program that enables corps members to travel to Israel to explore the values that undergird their commitment to public service.
Lynn Schusterman: Creating A Jewish Culture Of Inclusivity Lynn Schusterman 2012
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This past summer, I had the opportunity to spend time with nearly 60 Teach For America corps members taking part in our Foundation's REALITY Israel Experience, a program that enables corps members to travel to Israel to explore the values that undergird their commitment to public service.
Lynn Schusterman: Creating A Jewish Culture Of Inclusivity Lynn Schusterman 2012
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This past summer, I had the opportunity to spend time with nearly 60 Teach For America corps members taking part in our Foundation's REALITY Israel Experience, a program that enables corps members to travel to Israel to explore the values that undergird their commitment to public service.
Lynn Schusterman: Creating A Jewish Culture Of Inclusivity Lynn Schusterman 2012
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This past summer, I had the opportunity to spend time with nearly 60 Teach For America corps members taking part in our Foundation's REALITY Israel Experience, a program that enables corps members to travel to Israel to explore the values that undergird their commitment to public service.
Lynn Schusterman: Creating A Jewish Culture Of Inclusivity Lynn Schusterman 2012
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By day, Mr. Mercier the name is a pseudonym is a professor of philosophy in Berlin and has written extensively on the intractable questions that undergird his fiction: Is free will possible?
Plot-Driven Epistemological Dilemmas Sam Sacks 2012
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