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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. lend moral support to;

2. make secure underneath;
- Example: "undergird the ship"
[syn: undergird, brace up]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Undergird \Un`der*gird"\, v. t.
   To bind below; to gird round the bottom.
   [1913 Webster]

         They used helps, undergirding the ship.  --Acts xxvii.
                                                  17.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

undergird
    v 1: lend moral support to
    2: make secure underneath; "undergird the ship" [syn:
       undergird, brace up]