noun
Meaning 1
undercurrent (of water)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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rhymes with -ɛt
verb
Meaning 2
To set under or beneath.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 3
To prop or support.
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History
Etymology
From Middle English undersetten, from Old English undersettan (“to put, place, or set under, put in the place of another, substitute, falsify, forge, counterfeit, place as a pledge, hypothecate, add, annex, subjoin, make subject, submit, set beneath, esteem less”), equivalent to under- + set. Cognate with Dutch ondersetten (“to put beneath”), German untersetzen (“to put beneath, pin”).