OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 3435

underlie

/ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
subyacer
To serve as a basis of; form the foundation of.
[…] she was carved into the bole of a red cedar tree. Sun and storm had bleached the wood, moss here and there softened the crudeness of the modelling; sincerity underlay every str…
a doctrine underlying a theory
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