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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
underprop .
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Examples
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He recognised it as she spoke and was content, for the proud generosity of his nature was built on a humility that had no underprops of petty pride.
Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant
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They are the underpinnings, the underprops of an old system, these _émigrés_, by which the masses were expected to toil for the benefit of the classes.
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