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undergirds

undergirds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of undergird.

Meaning of undergird

Verb

undergird (third-person singular simple present undergirds, present participle undergirding, simple past and past participle undergirded or undergirt)

  1. To strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object.
  2. (figuratively) To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis; provide supportive evidence for.
    • For fiction, documentary, verse, and essay, she undergirds entertaining images and stories with profound themes of ecological responsibility and challenge to the suppression of human rights.2015, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion, McFarland, →ISBN, page 3
  3. To lend moral support to.
  4. To secure below or underneath.

Questions about undergirds

What is undergirds the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Undergirds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of undergird.

Words near undergirds in the dictionary

  1. undergets
  2. undergetting
  3. undergird
  4. undergirded
  5. undergirding
  6. undergirds
  7. undergirt
  8. underglaze
  9. underglazed
  10. underglazes
  11. underglazing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undergirds (page history and authors); undergird (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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