underlaying

Verb

underlay (third-person singular simple present underlays, present participle underlaying, simple past and past participle underlaid)

1. (transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
   • We underlaid the carpet with felt.
2. (transitive) To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
   • to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing
3. (transitive) To put a tap on (a shoe).
4. (ambitransitive, fault) To incline from the vertical.

   Synonyms:

   hade

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