Definition : 1 Archaic : to make secure underneath
2: to form the basis or Foundation of: strengthen , support
DID YOU KNOW?
The English verb gird means, among other things "to encircle or bind with a flexible band." When undergird first entered English in the 16th century, it meant "to make secure underneath," by passing a rope or chain underneath something( such as a ship). That literal sense has long since fallen out of use but in the 19th century undergird picked up the figurative " strengthen" or " support " sense that we still use. Gird and consequently undergird both derives from the old English GERD,meaning enclosure " or " yard ." Gird also gives us girder, a noun referring to a horizontal piece supporting a structure.
EXAMPLES OF UNDERGIRD
-- Stacey Abrams, THE New York Times, May 15 2019
" We we're taught that the right to vote undergirds all of the rights that free and fair elections are necessary for social progress."
--The a Ballard, Pitchfork, June 8 2019
" The organ that undergirded much of her recent work suggested a secular version of the church nave. Here, the walls close in and we are transported somewhere deceptively playing to what might be an afternoon recital and someone's home."
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