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Underpin :: Underpin (v. t.) To support by some solid foundation; to place something underneath for support.

Build :: Build (v. t.) To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means..

Foundationer :: Foundationer (n.) One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.

Bedplate :: Bedplate (n.) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate..

Ground :: Ground (v. t.) To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly..

Chapel :: Chapel (n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial.

Air-built :: Air-built (a.) Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle..

Foundation :: Foundation (n.) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry..

Mine :: Mine (v. t.) To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means..

Bed :: Bed (v. t.) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock..

Burse :: Burse (n.) A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries..

Institution :: Institution (n.) An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution..

Sap :: Sap (v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Founder :: Founder (n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows..

Superstructive :: Superstruction (n.) That which id superstructed, or built upon some foundation; an edifice; a superstructure..

Undermine :: Undermine (v. t.) Fig.: To remove the foundation or support of by clandestine means; to ruin in an underhand way; as, to undermine reputation; to undermine the constitution of the state..

Ground :: Ground (n.) The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope..

Foundation :: Foundation (n.) A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment..

Subvert :: Subvert (v. t.) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

Subsequent :: Subsequent (a.) Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome..

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