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How to pronounce understructure in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure
Type of support
Has types mat, bed, raft foundation, raft

Examples of understructure

understructure
In one image, we see only a close-up of the honeycombed understructure of MIT's Simmons Hall.
From the online.wsj.com
Then the city lost the company that was going to repair the pier's pilings and understructure.
From the news-journalonline.com
The Cold War analogy is not to say that these are similar in their understructure, as you suggested.
From the theatlantic.com
Adding insult to probable injury, shallow pop flies get swatted down by the bridge's understructure.
From the forbes.com
Phase one is 225,000 square feet and includes new villas and apartments with understructure parking and a clubhouse.
From the stltoday.com
He saw it in a farm harrow, the understructure of a funeral wreath that was shaped like a lyre, in dozens of tiny toy buglers he found in a flea market.
From the time.com
Workers who took off the deck of the bridge found out the steel understructure of the bridge had deteriorated, said a county spokeswoman, Lynne Smith.
From the lohud.com
The steel understructure of Rosenblatt is old and needs to be replaced, and concourses offering field views and better locker rooms would be vast improvements, Fahey said.
From the omaha.com
More examples
  • Foundation: lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"