underfooted

Verb

underfoot (third-person singular simple present underfoots, present participle underfooting, simple past and past participle underfooted)

1. (transitive) To provide a footing beneath; to shore up or underpin.
   • A builder was employed to underfoot a tenement, but the work having been improperly executed, damage was caused to adjoining houses.1856, The Scottish Jurist
2. To assign a column summary that is less than the sum of all the entries in that column.
   • Another device is to underfoot the accounts receivable column and the net cash column in the record of cash receipts and to underfoot the debit or overfoot the credit side of one or more accounts in the customer's ledger by equal amounts.1932, Frank Hatch Streightoff, Advanced Accounting, page 140

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