1. underlie - Noun
2. underlie - Verb
To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.
To be at the basis of; to form the foundation of; to support; as, a doctrine underlying a theory.
To be subject or amenable to.
To lie below or under.
See Underlay, n., 1.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. John Desmond Bernal
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. Thom Mayne
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings. Ali Khamenei
There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses. Michel Foucault
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net. Meg Whitman
In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie Fall on Your Knees, they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers. Ann-Marie MacDonald