Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to underfoot
Participle: underfooted
Gerund: underfooting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | underfoot |
| you | underfoot |
| he;she;it | underfoots |
| we | underfoot |
| you | underfoot |
| they | underfoot |
Perfect
| I | have underfooted |
| you | have underfooted |
| he;she;it | has underfooted |
| we | have underfooted |
| you | have underfooted |
| they | have underfooted |
Past
| I | underfooted |
| you | underfooted |
| he;she;it | underfooted |
| we | underfooted |
| you | underfooted |
| they | underfooted |
Pluperfect
| I | had underfooted |
| you | had underfooted |
| he;she;it | had underfooted |
| we | had underfooted |
| you | had underfooted |
| they | had underfooted |
Future
| I | will underfoot |
| you | will underfoot |
| he;she;it | will underfoot |
| we | will underfoot |
| you | will underfoot |
| they | will underfoot |
Future Perfect
| I | will have underfooted |
| you | will have underfooted |
| he;she;it | will have underfooted |
| we | will have underfooted |
| you | will have underfooted |
| they | will have underfooted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | underfoot |
| you | underfoot |
| he;she;it | underfoot |
| we | underfoot |
| you | underfoot |
| they | underfoot |
Perfect
| I | have underfooted |
| you | have underfooted |
| he;she;it | have underfooted |
| we | have underfooted |
| you | have underfooted |
| they | have underfooted |
Imperfect
| I | underfooted |
| you | underfooted |
| he;she;it | underfooted |
| we | underfooted |
| you | underfooted |
| they | underfooted |
Pluperfect
| I | had underfooted |
| you | had underfooted |
| he;she;it | had underfooted |
| we | had underfooted |
| you | had underfooted |
| they | had underfooted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would underfoot |
| you | would underfoot |
| he;she;it | would underfoot |
| we | would underfoot |
| you | would underfoot |
| they | would underfoot |
Perfect
| I | would have underfooted |
| you | would have underfooted |
| he;she;it | would have underfooted |
| we | would have underfooted |
| you | would have underfooted |
| they | would have underfooted |
Imperative
| you | underfoot |
| we | Let's underfoot |
| you | underfoot |
Verbs conjugated like 'underfoot'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'underfoot'
underbook,
underboost,
undercoat,
undercook,
undercool,
underfit,
underflow,
underfong,
underlook,
underpot,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English underfoote, underfote, equivalent to under- + foot. Cognate with Middle Dutch ondervoet (“underfoot”). Compare also Middle Low German undervôt (“pedestal, base”).
Sample Sentences
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A builder was employed to underfoot a tenement, but the work having been improperly executed, damage was caused to adjoining houses. [1856, The Scottish Jurist:]
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The two courses which were open to them were, — on the one hand, to underfoot the building ; and, on the other, to take it down, with the view of its being re-erected on the same site, or elsewhere ; if they should have the means of doing so. [1870, Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court, Etc.:]
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The result was to bring out the fact, which is now established beyond all doubt by the proof, that any attempt to underfoot the steeple would have been an entire mistake. [1904, Sir John Rankine, The Scots Revised Reports, page 774:]
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Another device is to underfoot the accounts receivable column and the net cash column in the record of cash receipts and to underfoot the debit or overfoot the credit side of one or more accounts in the customer's ledger by equal amounts. [1932, Frank Hatch Streightoff, Advanced Accounting, page 140:]
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Stay away from the client or taxpayer who conceals, pads, overstates or understates, alters, duplicates, overfoots or underfoots, diverts, manipulates, omits, falsifies and flagrantly disregards the IRS regulations. [1980, The CPA Journal - Volume 50:]
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In manually balancing the cash receipts journal prior to posting to the ledgers, it is quite possible to underfoot or overfoot columns deliberately in order to manipulate the account records to cover cash shortages. [1983, Accounting and information systems: instructor's manual, →ISBN, page 258:]