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underblaming

underblaming is the present participle and gerund of underblame.

Meaning of underblame

Verb

underblame (third-person singular simple present underblames, present participle underblaming, simple past and past participle underblamed)

  1. (transitive) To blame insufficiently; to absolve.
    • But in respect to the emotional crippling of children it seems to me that women have been overblamed for the kinds of mothers they make, and underblamed for the failure of their marriages.1968, Cynthia Propper Seton, A Special and Curious Blessing, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., page 22
    Antonyms:
    overblame

Questions about underblaming

What is underblaming the present participle and gerund of?
Underblaming is the present participle and gerund of underblame.

Words near underblaming in the dictionary

  1. underbiting
  2. underbitten
  3. underblame
  4. underblamed
  5. underblames
  6. underblaming
  7. underblanket
  8. underblankets
  9. underblew
  10. underblouse
  11. underblouses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underblaming (page history and authors); underblame (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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