underfoot

Plural: underfoots

Adverb

• under the feet
  • "trampled the beans underfoot"
  • "green grass growing underfoot"
• in the way and hindering progress
  • "a house with children and pets and toys always underfoot"

Adj

• Situated under one's foot or feet.
• In the way; placed so as to obstruct or hinder.
• Downtrodden; abject.

Adv

• Under one's foot or feet.
• In the way; situated so as to obstruct or hinder.

Noun

• A storage compartment that sits below the deck of a boat.

Verb

• To provide a footing beneath; to shore up or underpin.
• To assign a column summary that is less than the sum of all the entries in that column.

Examples

• It would be easier to do a big project like that someday when we don't have a bunch of newcomers underfoot.
• 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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