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Definition of "underlaid" []

  • Past tense and past participle of underlay1. (verb)
  • Placed or laid underneath. (adjective)
  • Supported or raised by something from beneath; having an underlay. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "underlaid" in a sentence
  • "Before the War, German Universities were tops in the world — look at the source of all the advances in 20th Century physics that underlaid much of US economic growth from 1950 on."
  • "These she could not move, but she thrust between them one of the roof-poles which had underlaid the dirt and moss."
  • "The same principles underlaid both; the same truths were manifest of both."
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