Underpinning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UNDERPINNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• support (a building or other structure) from below by laying a solid foundation below ground level or by substituting stronger for weaker materials.
• support, justify, or form the basis for
NOUN:
• the act of underpinning
• The act of one who underpins; the act of supporting by stones, masonry, or the like.
• That by which a building is underpinned; the material and construction used for support, introduced beneath a wall already constructed.
• The foundation, esp. of a frame house.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to support from below

Words related to UNDERPINNING

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Words that contain UNDERPINNING

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How to use UNDERPINNING in a sentence

• You may guess I stood at attention soon enough, but told him I was looking at the founds to see if they wanted underpinning from the floods.
• So alarming were the comments on what had been said that I began to feel that I had inadvertently taken out the underpinning from the social system.
• Just before the Great War commenced, the costly operation of underpinning the cathedral was brought to a successful conclusion.
• This was striking at the very underpinning of femininity, as the world knew it.
• We reached there in about forty minutes and found that the torrent had washed out the underpinning of the bridge, and nothing was left but a few ties, the rails and the stringers.
• The girders in turn were supported on posts footed on the new underpinning of the adjacent columns.
• They were the underpinning of the beautiful structure that so many delighted to view when the busy architect was a little older.
• The street ran on either side of the hill, from one part of which a quantity of rock had been removed to form the underpinning of the new jail.
• An old ramshackle house, which Tom thought might once have been a boathouse, stood near, the water lapping its underpinning.
• The structure was but the inevitable underpinning for the desired display.
• BRICKS AND BOULDERS ON GRANITE UNDERPINNING 149 46.

Similar words containing DERPINN without suffix ing and without prefix un

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