Usually means: Forms the foundation or basis.
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  1. underpins: Merriam-Webster
  2. underpins: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. underpins: Collins English Dictionary
  4. underpins: Vocabulary.com
  5. underpins: Wordnik
  6. underpins: Wiktionary
  7. underpins: Dictionary.com
  8. underpins: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. underpins: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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  1. underpins: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (underpin)

verb:  (transitive) To support from below with props or masonry.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To give support to; to form a basis of; to corroborate.
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