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What does underpin mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To support from below with props or masonry.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To give support to; to corroborate.
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The claim of the insured included an additional claim to underpin an adjacent office block, which was not part of the insured property.
A full structural analysis is required to determine whether it is necessary to underpin the foundations to resist the additional dead loads.
This interpretation holds water, but it doesn't account for the poetry, the hilarity, and the glimmers of hope that underpin the film.
Mathematics, statistics, probability, and computational science all underpin this new way of thinking about life.
The avowed objective was to underpin one of the favored Lebanese factions enmeshed in the multilateral disputes in the country.
Names are great but it is the actual proceedings that underpin what we do that is important.

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