Crossword-Solution: UNDERPINNING 12 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word Word Type Definition
Underpinning p. pr. & vb. n. of Underpin
Underpinning n. The act of one who underpins; the act of supporting
by stones, masonry, or the like.
Underpinning n. That by which a building is underpinned; the material
and construction used for support, introduced beneath a wall already
constructed.
Underpinning n. The foundation, esp. of a frame house.

We have 17 clues for the answer “UNDERPINNING”

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substratum 15 answers
origination 18 answers
truss 19 answers
homework 25 answers
grounding 26 answers
cornerstone 30 answers
Arrangements 30 answers
infrastructure 30 answers
substructure 42 answers
Backing 54 answers
Foot 64 answers
buttress 66 answers
evidence 71 answers
Meat 75 answers
Ground 80 answers
BOTTOM ___ 86 answers
Base 97 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
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Sentences with UNDERPINNING (5)

The street ran on either side of the hill, from one part of which a quantity of rock had been removed to form the underpinning of the new jail.
The Story of a Bad Boy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 2006
Owing to the settling of the underpinning in the centre, it had assumed a “sway-backed” outline, which gave it the name of the “broken-back house.” No repairs had been attempted, as I was preparing to build a new home.
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (His Son) Captain Robert E. Lee 2000
The next time you design to bring a trunk down-stairs, you would better cut away the underpinning, and knock out the beams, and let the garret down into the cellar.
Gala-days Gail Hamilton 2000
Within the pragmatics of an underlying structure reflected in literacy, art was as confined as the experience of language, which represented its underpinning.
The Civilization of Illiteracy Mihai Nadin 2000
Since moral individualism is actually the underpinning of liberalism-"Do what's best for yourself"-the liberty it advances is that of competitive access to abundance.
The Civilization of Illiteracy Mihai Nadin 2000

Quotes with UNDERPINNING (3)

A great woe underpinning the sorrows of the world today is this: so many people think they are far better than others and they are too righteous than others, and they know far better than others, and such thoughts give them reasons for an otherwise action!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Religion, Philosophy and life
Santería was traditionally an unacknowledged and underappreciated aspect of what it meant to be Cuban. Yet the syncretism between the Yoruban religion that the slaves brought to the island and the Catholicism of their masters is, in my opinion, the underpinning of Cuban culture. Every artistic realm--music, theater, literature, etc.--owes a huge debt to santería and the slaves who practiced it and passed it on, largely secretively, for generations.
Cristina Garcia Dreaming in Cuban
They are the humans who are intelligent enough to have insight of every single molecular underpinning of the warmth of love, and yet not let that factual knowledge ruin the romance in a relationship.
Abhijit Naskar The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance