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underballast

underballast verb: to load with insufficient ballast.

Verb

underballast (third-person singular simple present underballasts, present participle underballasting, simple past and past participle underballasted)

  1. (transitive) To load with insufficient ballast.

Forms of underballast

third-person singular presentunderballasts
present participleunderballasting
past participleunderballasted
pastunderballasted

Origin of underballast

From under- + ballast.

Questions about underballast

What does underballast mean?
Underballast means to load with insufficient ballast.
What part of speech is underballast?
Underballast is a verb.
What is the past tense of underballast?
The past tense of underballast is underballasted.

Words near underballast in the dictionary

  1. underbake
  2. underbaked
  3. underbakes
  4. underbaking
  5. underbalanced
  6. underballast
  7. underballasted
  8. underballasting
  9. underballasts
  10. underbanked
  11. underbar

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