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undergird
[ uhn-der-gurd ]
verb (used with object)
- to strengthen; secure, as by passing a rope or chain under and around:
to undergird a top-heavy load.
- to give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis:
ethics undergirded by faith.
undergird
/ ˌʌԻəˈɡɜː /
verb
- tr to strengthen or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of (an object, load, etc)
Word History and Origins
Origin of undergird1
Word History and Origins
Origin of undergird1
Example Sentences
NOAA’s work extends deep into the heart of the American economy — businesses use it to navigate risk and find opportunity — and it undergirds both American defense and geopolitical planning.
Some public historians, left reeling from DOGE-spearheaded cuts to federal humanities and arts funding, view the order as an affront to the scholarship and nuance that undergirds the institutions' evidence-based tellings of American history.
But the story’s many twists and hair’s-breadth escapes — its devolution into a Holocaust picaresque — lack the foundation of historical truth that undergirded the writer’s debut effort.
undergirds all this bracing commentary — one could cite many, many more examples — is a sober appreciation, to varying degrees, of Trump’s First Law: There is no law.
Despite California’s kumbaya vibe, a deep lode of hate and racist one-upmanship undergirds Southern California.
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