英语词汇“underpinning”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

underpinunderpin /ˈʌndɚˌpɪn/ ●○○ verb (underpinned, underpinning) [transitive]

VERB TABLE

underpin

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	underpin
	he, she, it	underpins
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	underpinned
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have underpinned
	he, she, it	has underpinned
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had underpinned
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will underpin
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have underpinned

Continuous Form
Present	I	am underpinning
	he, she, it	is underpinning
	you, we, they	are underpinning
Past	I, he, she, it	was underpinning
	you, we, they	were underpinning
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been underpinning
	he, she, it	has been underpinning
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been underpinning
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be underpinning
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been underpinning

1to give strength or support to something and help it succeed: These laws underpin our society.2to put a solid piece of metal under something such as a wall in order to make it stronger—underpinning noun [countable, uncountable]: the underpinnings of the nation’s economy