Underpin

Definition: Underpin

Underpin

Verb

1. Support from beneath.

2. Support with evidence or authority : make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Underpin \Un`der*pin"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Underpinned; present participle verb or noun Underpinning.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Underpin

Crosswords: Underpin

Business

The convergence between information technology and telecommunications, and the availability of new technologies underpin the great potential of the Italian ICT market. (references)

Economic History

Moldova

Most of the required legislation to underpin this reform has already been prepared. (references)

Australia

Australia is well-placed to seize biotechnology opportunities, because of its internationally recognized reputation in the sciences that underpin biotechnology, access to high growth markets of Southeast Asia, a favorable regulatory climate and positive public attitudes to biotechnology. (references)

Cape Verde

Furthermore, several aggressive steps were taken, namely the signing of two major agreements - a stand-by agreement with the IMF to underpin a donor-supported domestic debt relief program calling for the creation of an offshore trust fund, and a foreign exchange cooperation accord with Portugal linking the Cape Verdean Escudo to the Portuguese Escudo at a fixed exchange rate and designed to pave the way for the convertibility of the Cape Verdean escudo (CVE); the establishment of an offshore Trust Fund to hold and manage domestic debt deposits; the approval of the Budget Law, prohibiting internal credit to the government beyond 3 percent of GDP and 60 percent of GDP ceiling for short and medium term public loan; and the creation of a stock market. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

pajandroj (shore), përforcoj (add, aggrandize, confirm, engrain, establish, exalt, extend, follow up, fortify, gain a foothold, grow strong, grow stronger, increase, redouble, re-enforce, reinforce, strengthen, strut, truss), mbështjell (clothe, coil, encase, enfold, enlace, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inlace, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, nuzzle, overcast, reel, reel up, roll, scarf, sheet, throw on, throw out, tuck up, twine, wind, wind on, wrap, wreathe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عزز (abound, bear out, boost, build, carry, cement, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, enhance, extend, foster, help, promote, ram, reinforce, sustain), ‏أيد (advocate, affirm, champion, countenance, favor, favour, further, go in for, look with favor on, look with favour on, plunk, reason, second, side, side with, stand for, stand up for, stick up, stick up for, subscribe, subserve, support, sustain, uphold, validate), ‏شكل جزءا من أساس, ‏دعم (back, back up, backing, backup, bolster, boost, buttress, carry, consolidate, encourage, encouragement, favor, favour, fuel, hold, prop, put up, reinforce, rest, second, shore, stanchion, stand up for, stick by, subsidize, support, take sides, truss, uphold, upholding). (various references)

Bulgarian 

заздравявам (granulate, piece up, undergird), подкрепям (aid, back, back up, bear out, bolster, buttress, carry through, corroborate, countenance, enlist, give a hand, patronize, piece in, promote, prop up, refresh, second, stand by, stand to, stick by, stick up for, support, sustain, take up, undergird, underlie, uphold, verify, weigh in with), подпирам (atlas, back, prop up, shore, support, sustain, truss, underlay, uphold). (various references)

Chinese 

� 固 (Underpinned, Underpinning). (various references)

Czech

podezdít, podepřít (brace, buttress, corroborate, prop, prop up, shore up, stake, support, underlay). (various references)

Farsi 

پی سنگی درزیردیوارقراردادن , پی بندی کردن , پشتیبانی یاتاییدکردن . (various references)

French

étayer. (various references)

German

untermauern (back up, corroborate, enforce, hammer home, substantiate, support, to reinforce). (various references)

Greek 

υποστηρίζω (assert, back, back up, befriend, bolster, contend, countenance, maintain, patronize, predicate, prop, second, shore, sponsor, stand by, stand up for, submit, support, sustain, uphold), θεμελιώ (found). (various references)

Hungarian

megerõsít (approve, attach, beef up, brace, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, defilade, depose, fasten, fix, fortify, harden, homologate, man, reinforce, strengthen, uphold, verify, vouch), aládúcol (buttress, to pole, to shore up, to underpin). (various references)

Manx

cur bravinn fo. (various references)

Pig Latin

erpinunday

Portuguese

sustentar (abide, feedback, hold, hold up, insist, maintain, nourish, poison, propaedeutic, repose, support, sustain, truss, upbear, vindicate), segurar com escoras, escorar (prop, stake, strut, sustain, trig, underset). (various references)

Russian 

подводить фундамент. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podzidati, podupreti (bolster, brace, buttress, prop up, shore, shore up, stay, support, truss, underlay). (various references)

Spanish

apuntalar (brace, pin, pin up, prop, prop up, shore, shore up, truss). (various references)

Swedish

stötta (chock, prop, shore, stanchion, stick, strut, truss, underlay). (various references)

Turkish

desteklemek (advocate, assist, back up, bear out, bear smb. out, bolster, bolster up, brace, buoy, buttress, champion, countenance, encourage, endorse, Favor, favour, fortify, give a leg up, give countenance to, go along with, help forward, hold up, identify, indorse, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, logroll, nourish, patronize, promote, prop, root for, second, shore, sponsor, spoonfeed, stake, stanchion, stand, stand by, start, stick up for, strengthen, subordinate, support, sustain, uphold), destek koymak (chock, prop, prop up, truss). (various references)

Ukrainian

підтримувати (aliment, back, back up, bear up, block, bolster, carry, cheer, corroborate, encourage, favour, fortify, get behind, hold up, keep alive, maintain, play up, prop, pull, push, second, sponsor, stand for, support, sustain, underset, upbear, uphold), підводити фундамент, підпирати (back, brace, buttress, chock, prop, shore, skid, stake, stanchion, strut, sustain, underlay, underset). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "underpin": underpinned, underpinning, underpinnings, underpins. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Underpin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cunderdin, underpinn. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: inurned, punnier.

-2 letters: dinner, dunner, endrin, inured, pinder, pinned, pinner, pruned, punier, punned, punner, purine, ruined, undine, unripe.

-3 letters: diner, drupe, duper, ennui, indue, inned, inner, inure, inurn, nuder, nudie, penni, perdu, pined, pride, pried, prude, prune, purin, redip, renin, repin, riped, ripen, under, unpen, unpin, unrip, upend, urine.

-4 letters: deni, dine, dire, drip.

+1 letter: underpins, underspin, unripened.

+2 letters: plundering, underspins, uninspired.

+3 letters: superintend, turpentined, underpaying, underpinned.

+4 letters: preinduction, purblindness, superintends, underlapping, underpinning, underplaying, underpricing, unpretending, unprincipled.

+5 letters: equiponderant, mispronounced, nondisruptive, nonproductive, preinductions, superinducing, superintended, underexposing, underpainting, underpinnings, uninterrupted.

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