afford support, bed on, buoy up, crouch, ground on, keep afloat, lie low, maintain, shore, subsidize, underpin
Definitionv. be or form the base for
Last update: June 23, 2015
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The coal deposits underlie about 17,000 sq. [Please select]
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There are genuine principles which underlie the development of every child that lives--even the feeble-minded, deaf, and blind. [Please select]
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In teaching our children, then, we have first to conquer ourselves--that painful, reiterated, primal necessity, which must underlie all teaching. [Please select]
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Some pale, purplish streaks and clouds generally underlie the brown blotches where they are thickest, and there form a kind of nimbus. [Please select]
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Two general laws underlie this feature of silk-reeling: hot water makes the silk run faster, and cold water retards its progress. [Please select]
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Coal-measures underlie an area somewhat larger than the basin of the river. [Please select]
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Further, primary substances are most properly so called, because they underlie and are the subjects of everything else. [Please select]
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