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What is the verb for underlying?

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underlie
  1. (intransitive) To lie in a position directly beneath.
  2. (transitive) To lie under or beneath.
  3. (transitive) To serve as a basis of; form the foundation of.
  4. (transitive) To be subject to; be liable to answer, as a charge or challenge.
  5. (mining) To underlay.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Political motivations most likely underlie this transformation of tradition.”
      “During this time the molecular processes of memory formation which underlie addiction are accelerated.”
      “When we get to the appeal, let us focus on the issues that underlie the appeal.”
underlay
  1. (transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
  2. (transitive) To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
  3. (transitive) To put a tap on (a shoe).
  4. (mining, intransitive, of a vein, fault, or lode) To incline from the vertical; to hade.
  5. Synonyms:
underly
  1. Alternative spelling of underlie
underlies
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of underlie
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Overlying the Corallian are the marine mudstones and thin limestones of the Kimmeridge Clay, which underlies the Vale of Pickering.”
      “That is what we call jurisprudence, it is the philosophy and decision-making that underlies our legal system.”
      “The principle that underlies these models is that promotions act as a stimulus which gives rise to a conditioned response.”
underlieth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of underlie
underliest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of underlie
underlaid
  1. simple past tense and past participle of underlay
  2. Examples:
    1. “I took vengeful joy in the smattering of boos that underlaid the applause, though.”
      “Their disappointment and social difficulties underlaid their petitions and appeals to authority.”
      “She understood the strong, reliant nature which underlaid the quiet exterior.”
underlaying
  1. present participle of underlay
  2. Examples:
    1. “I was in the team that supervised the underlaying and overlaying of heating cables in site works.”
      “It's got an underlaying cash-value life insurance policy that funds it,'' Grove said.”
underlain
  1. past participle of underlie
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The crest of the Blue Ridge is usually underlain with Precambrian or Cambrian igneous rocks.”
      “During shortening, the domains underlain by a frictional decollement were pinned at this facies boundary.”
      “They are underlain by 10-20 metres of Kimmeridge Clay resting on the Coral Rag sub-division of the Corallian.”
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