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underfoot

UK /ʌndəˈfʊt/US /ʌndɚˈfʊt/

adjective 3
adverb 2
verb 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective3

Situated under one's foot or feet.
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In the way; placed so as to obstruct or hinder.
- We'd go to the Downbeat Club, on Fifty-second Street, and I'd be so underfoot that Billie couldn't miss me. — 2006
Downtrodden; abject.

adverb2

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Under one's foot or feet.
- The workers were all big, burly, hard-hearted men, tromping through the marsh in their heavy boots without sparing so much as a single thought for the masses of tiny frogs they crushed underfoot.
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In the way; situated so as to obstruct or hinder.
- It would be easier to do a big project like that someday when we don't have a bunch of newcomers underfoot.

verb2

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To provide a footing beneath; to shore up or underpin.
- A builder was employed to underfoot a tenement, but the work having been improperly executed, damage was caused to adjoining houses. — 1856
To assign a column summary that is less than the sum of all the entries in that column.

noun1

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A storage compartment that sits below the deck of a boat.
- All too often saithe are put away with an inadequate amount of ice on them, or stowed in deep shelves or underfoots, where they become badly squashed and spoil more rapidly. — 1970

forms

underfooted · underfooting · underfoots

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