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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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This interpretation holds water, but it doesn't account for the poetry, the hilarity, and the glimmers of hope that underpin the film.
The organisation's evidence condemned the unwritten principles that seem to underpin the draft bill.
A full structural analysis is required to determine whether it is necessary to underpin the foundations to resist the additional dead loads.
The claim of the insured included an additional claim to underpin an adjacent office block, which was not part of the insured property.
It is natural that these concepts should underpin the codified laws on equality before the law and fair trials.
The six-country tour will also underpin the fact that the island is a sovereign, independent country, he said.

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