Explore Undergird through 4 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like support or strengthen. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Undergird meaning
- To strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object.
- To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis; provide supportive evidence for.
- To lend moral support to.
Synonyms of Undergird
Using Undergird
- The main meaning on this page is: To strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object. | To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis; provide supportive evidence for. | To lend moral support to.
- Useful related words include: support, back up, brace up, strengthen.
Context around Undergird
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Undergird
- In this selection, "undergird" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, deep stand out and add context to how "undergird" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include institutions which undergird or support and strongly to undergird deep pullbacks. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "undergird" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with undergird
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It continued to form higher lows, suggesting buyers returned strongly to undergird deep pullbacks. (14 words)
Secondly, Mnangagwa has to deal with a public with decreased confidence in independent institutions which undergird or support and entrench democracy. (21 words)
Some of the proponents of the SSN(X) insist the delay will allow the advanced technologies that undergird this platform more time to mature. (24 words)
The law tasked the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network — FinCEN — with setting up the new database and writing the detailed regulations that would undergird the system. (28 words)
Some of the proponents of the SSN(X) insist the delay will allow the advanced technologies that undergird this platform more time to mature. (24 words)
Secondly, Mnangagwa has to deal with a public with decreased confidence in independent institutions which undergird or support and entrench democracy. (21 words)
Example sentences (4)
It continued to form higher lows, suggesting buyers returned strongly to undergird deep pullbacks.
The law tasked the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network — FinCEN — with setting up the new database and writing the detailed regulations that would undergird the system.
Some of the proponents of the SSN(X) insist the delay will allow the advanced technologies that undergird this platform more time to mature.
Secondly, Mnangagwa has to deal with a public with decreased confidence in independent institutions which undergird or support and entrench democracy.