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underbrake

underbrake verb: to brake (a vehicle) insufficiently.

Verb

underbrake (third-person singular simple present underbrakes, present participle underbraking, simple past and past participle underbraked)

  1. To brake (a vehicle) insufficiently.

Forms of underbrake

third-person singular presentunderbrakes
present participleunderbraking
past participleunderbraked
pastunderbraked

Origin of underbrake

From under- + brake.

Questions about underbrake

What does underbrake mean?
Underbrake means to brake (a vehicle) insufficiently.
What part of speech is underbrake?
Underbrake is a verb.
What is the past tense of underbrake?
The past tense of underbrake is underbraked.

Words near underbrake in the dictionary

  1. underbraces
  2. underbracing
  3. underbrag
  4. underbrags
  5. underbrained
  6. underbrake
  7. underbranch
  8. underbranches
  9. underbreak
  10. underbreaks
  11. underbreath

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