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underattends

underattends is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about underattends

What is underattends the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Underattends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of underattend.

Words near underattends in the dictionary

  1. underattainment
  2. underattend
  3. underattendance
  4. underattended
  5. underattending
  6. underattends
  7. underattention
  8. underattenuation
  9. underattribute
  10. underattributed
  11. underattributes

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