undergird
- v lend moral support to
- v make secure underneath
undergird the ship
- It may be a chronic war of low-intensity interventionspolice actions on humanitarian grounds, to undergird states in which law has collapsed, or against terrorism.
- I want to set the principles that I believe have to undergird the achieving of those goals and I want to set forth the different means of realizing them, and then really .
- Others will have their ideas and goods ripped off, in a culture where intellectual-property rightslet's put this charitablyare not yet fully accepted as a vital undergird to .