underlay
verb (used with object)
to lay under or beneath.
have underlaid
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present perfectof underlay.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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John Carpenter’s not-so-subtle foray into media criticism, “They Live,” imagines a world in which aliens have underlaid everything we read and watch with subliminal commands to “obey” them as ruling-class overlords.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2016
Perchance it was given to her to see something of that manlier nature which must have underlaid even then that which we saw and grieved over.
From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green
