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underˈride, v. [under-1 4 b.] a. trans. To form the basis on which (something) occurs; cf. override v. 3 a. rare.
1956M. Duggan in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 84 It underrode everything and was to him no more than suspected. b. Geol. Of a mass of rock, water, etc.: to move underneath (another mass).
1970Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. LXXXI. 1665/1 The seismically active zone of movement..between the moving oceanic crust and upper mantle, and the relatively stationary material that it underrides. 1977A. Hallam Planet Earth 54/2 Sediment-charged rivers spread material out over the lake floor by under-riding the lake water. |