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underboosted

underboosted is the simple past and past participle of underboost.

Adjective

underboosted (comparative more underboosted, superlative most underboosted)

  1. Suffering from underboost.
    • Aside from the intake cycle condition described above and when rapidly decelerating the engine, a helicopter power plant can not be seriously underboosted.1961, Approach - Volume 6, Issue 8, page 39
  2. Underpowered.
    • The Millenia's steering feels precise and is the most naturally weighted of the three (the Audi's felt overboosted just off center; the Volvo's, underboosted).1997, Road & Track - Volume 49, page 96
    • They will have been driven in an overstuffed, underboosted car, to a party somewhere, sometime.2013, Daisy Waugh, I Don't Know Why She Bothers, →ISBN
  3. Insufficiently promoted.
    • Our symbol of success is Saturn 5; the USSR is now the underboosted one.1967, Space/aeronautics - Volume 48, page 20
    • In the publishing industry, however, most of the product goes un- or underadvertised, and even books that publishing people consider to be heavily pushed are ridiculously underboosted by the standards of most other business enterprises.1990, Richard Curtis, Beyond the bestseller, →ISBN

Meaning of underboost

Verb

underboost (third-person singular simple present underboosts, present participle underboosting, simple past and past participle underboosted)

  1. To create too little pressure in an engine's combustion chamber.
    • It enables you to properly time the automatic loading of the entire system so that the regulator will not overboost, which would cause a hunting action, or so that it will not underboost and cause a deficiency in the pressure.1941, Bulletin - Issues 19-22, page 155

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Forms of underboosted

comparativemore underboosted
superlativemost underboosted

Questions about underboosted

What does underboosted mean?
Underboosted means suffering from underboost.
What is underboosted the simple past and past participle of?
Underboosted is the simple past and past participle of underboost.
What part of speech is underboosted?
Underboosted is an adjective.

Words near underboosted in the dictionary

  1. underbooked
  2. underbooking
  3. underbooks
  4. Underbool
  5. underboost
  6. underboosted
  7. underboosting
  8. underboosts
  9. underbore
  10. underborne
  11. underboss

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