undergird
IPA: ˈʌndɝgˈɝd
verb
- To strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object.
- (figurative) To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis; provide supportive evidence for.
- To lend moral support to.
- To secure below or underneath.
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Examples of "undergird" in Sentences
- He undergirded his ship at the port.
- They undergird all Afro Cuban music.
- Science does after all undergird Western civilisation.
- Respect for human rights and international cultures undergird my focus.
- It is worth noting the cynicism undergirding these laws in the first place.
- He undergird this expectation with the travel diary entries by Joseph Banks.
- The overall arc of development also offers the promise of new ways to undergird individual choice.
- Enterprise Apps Today focuses on the software applications that undergird enterprise organizations.
- The United States has a covert program to sabotage the systems that undergird Iran's nuclear facilities.
- There are many, many people who undergird what goes on here at LARS; there are lots of volunteer opportunities.
- And there is no guarantee that commodity prices, which undergird agricultural land values, will continue to rise.
- Long-range commitment and expertise in state planning laid the groundwork for and continue to undergird today's economic boom.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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