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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 six-country tour will also underpin the fact that the island is a sovereign, independent country, he said.
More importantly she is finally getting to a level of fitness that would underpin her brilliant shotmaking.
This interpretation holds water, but it doesn't account for the poetry, the hilarity, and the glimmers of hope that underpin the film.
The avowed objective was to underpin one of the favored Lebanese factions enmeshed in the multilateral disputes in the country.
A full structural analysis is required to determine whether it is necessary to underpin the foundations to resist the additional dead loads.
Names are great but it is the actual proceedings that underpin what we do that is important.

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