underlay
verb (used with object)
to lay under or beneath.
had underlaid
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past perfectof underlay.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But, true to form, devout Anglo-Catholic Eliot had underlaid his comedy with sober Christian dialectic.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had repudiated him, first as a lover, then as a friend; and he had hitherto never been able to gauge the depth of the affection for him which had underlaid all her conduct.
From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
These she could not move, but she thrust between them one of the roof-poles which had underlaid the dirt and moss.
From A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London
