English edit

Etymology edit

See substruction.

Verb edit

substruct (third-person singular simple present substructs, present participle substructing, simple past and past participle substructed)

  1. To build beneath something; to lay as the foundation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for substruct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)