Meaning

4 senses

  1. To strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object.

  2. (figuratively)To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis; provide supportive evidence for.

  3. To lend moral support to.

    unterfüttern

    lend moral support to

  4. To secure below or underneath.

    make secure underneath

Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
lend moral support to:

Forms

undergirds, undergirding, undergirded, undergirded
Base formundergird · to undergird
3rd person singularundergirds
Present participleundergirding
Past simpleundergirded / undergirt
Past participleundergirded / undergirt

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyundergird
he, she, itundergirds

Past simpleLesson

all personsundergirded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave undergirded
he, she, ithas undergirded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill undergird

Synonyms

4 synonyms
fortifyshore upsuccour
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms
undermine

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
underfootundergoB1undergradundergraduateB2
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