Undergird vs Underbuild - What's the difference?
undergird | underbuild |
To strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object.
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.
To build beneath another structure; provide a foundation or support for; undergird.
*1900 , Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire archaeological journal: Volume 15 :
To perform insufficient construction on a building or in an area; build below a specified requirement or standard.
*1903 , West Publishing Company, The Northeastern reporter: Volume 65 :
As verbs the difference between undergird and underbuild
is that undergird is to strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object while underbuild is to build beneath another structure; provide a foundation or support for; undergird.undergird
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* undermineunderbuild
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- The two eastern arches have been underbuilt for the sake of strengthening them.
- Appellee was obliged to overbuild, rather than underbuild , the appellant's telephone line for the distance of these six spans for the following reason [...]