substruct

transitive verb

sub·​struct

(¦)səbz¦trəkt,

-b¦st-

-ed/-ing/-s

: to build or lay beneath

Word History

Etymology

Latin substructus, past participle of substruere to build beneath, from sub- + struere to arrange, build

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