Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Placed or laid underneath.
- adjective Supported or raised by something from beneath; having an underlay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Laid or placed underneath; also, having something laid or lying underneath.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
underlay .
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Examples
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These she could not move, but she thrust between them one of the roof-poles which had underlaid the dirt and moss.
CHAPTER 24 2010
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I want to study it and study it to see how he does that, how the mundane is suddenly underlaid with the utmost revelations and profoundities.
charles p. ries | one book « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
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Before the War, German Universities were tops in the world — look at the source of all the advances in 20th Century physics that underlaid much of US economic growth from 1950 on.
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The same principles underlaid both; the same truths were manifest of both.
CHAPTER 5 2010
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It was a hint of woodsmoke from the kitchen fire underlaid with the unmistakable musk of female desire.
The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 2010
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"In general, that façade of arrogant superiority is underlaid by great insecurity,"saidJerrold Post, a psychology professor at George Washington University.
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Indeed, most of the paintings here are underlaid with a fine fretwork of lines suggesting an architect's blueprint.
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"In general, that façade of arrogant superiority is underlaid by great insecurity,"saidJerrold Post, a psychology professor at George Washington University.
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In a way, his drive was almost admirable, almost monk-like, in its abandonment of earthly ties—though the impulse that underlaid his actions was evil.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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In a way, his drive was almost admirable, almost monk-like, in its abandonment of earthly ties—though the impulse that underlaid his actions was evil.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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