Associations to the word «Underpin»

Wiktionary

UNDERPIN, verb. (transitive) To support from below with props or masonry.
UNDERPIN, verb. (transitive) (figuratively) To give support to; to corroborate.

Dictionary definition

UNDERPIN, verb. Support from beneath.
UNDERPIN, verb. Support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne