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under-attend

under-attend is the alternative form of underattend.

Meaning of underattend

Verb

underattend (third-person singular simple present underattends, present participle underattending, simple past and past participle underattended)

  1. To pay too little attention to.
    • A few use more drugs than we wish to know; most are wonderful parents but some underattend to their children well beyond neglect.1998, Geoffrey Shacklock, John Smyth, Being Reflexive in Critical Educational and Social Research, →ISBN, page 20

Forms of under-attend

third-person singular presentunder-attends
present participleunder-attending
past participleunder-attended
pastunder-attended

Questions about under-attend

What is under-attend the alternative form of?
Under-attend is the alternative form of underattend.

Words near under-attend in the dictionary

  1. under-approximated
  2. under-approximates
  3. under-approximating
  4. under-approximation
  5. under-approximations
  6. under-attend
  7. under-attended
  8. under-attending
  9. under-attends
  10. under-awed
  11. under-carter

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