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Underlie

Underlie Meaning & Definition
Underlie Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Underlie?

[v] be or form the base for
[v] lie underneath

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Underlie In Webster's Dictionary

\Un`der*lie"\, v. t. [AS. underlicgan. See {Under}, and {Lie} to be prostrate.] 1. To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel. 2. To be at the basis of; to form the foundation of; to support; as, a doctrine underlying a theory. 3. To be subject or amenable to. [R.] The knight of Ivanhoe . . . underlies the challenge of Brian der Bois Guilbert. --Sir W. Scott.
\Un`der*lie"\, v. i. To lie below or under.
\Un"der*lie`\, n. See {Underlay}, n., 1.

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