Usually means: Provide fundamental support or basis.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word undergird:

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  1. undergird: Merriam-Webster
  2. undergird: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. undergird: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. undergird: Collins English Dictionary
  5. undergird: Vocabulary.com
  6. undergird: Wordnik
  7. undergird: Wiktionary
  8. undergird: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. undergird: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. undergird: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. undergird: Dictionary.com
  12. Undergird: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. undergird: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. undergird: Rhymezone
  15. Undergird: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. undergird: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. undergird: FreeDictionary.org
  18. undergird: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. undergird: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. undergird: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See undergirded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (undergird)

verb:  To strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object.
verb:  (figurative) To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis; provide supportive evidence for.
verb:  To lend moral support to.
verb:  To secure below or underneath.

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