underpin
uhn der pin
- v support from beneath
- v support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm
- There follows a lengthy lecture on how walking marriages underpin stable families.
- In the meantime, Kaplan had founded the investment magazine that made his fortune, and thus had the financial underpinning for what seemed an impossible leap: from Mahler fan to .
- It was a statementthat radical Islam intends to attack and destroy the very principles of the Enlightenment that underpin the American experimentfreedom of religion, of .