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undercomes

undercomes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of undercome.

Meaning of undercome

Verb

undercome (third-person singular simple present undercomes, present participle undercoming, simple past undercame, past participle undercome)

  1. (nonstandard, transitive) To come under; experience or suffer the effects of; be affected by; undergo.
    • […] that is field dependent, and due to the fact that the beam coming from the guide star and the beam coming from another angular direction cross slightly different parts of the atmosphere medium, therefore undercome slightly different phase perturbations.1994, Alloin, Mariotti, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Adaptive optics for astronomy: Volume 1993
  2. (nonstandard, transitive) To submit; submit to; subvene
    • A third order time domain approach based on the code SWAN has also been undercome […]1997, Naval Studies Board, National Research Council, Twenty-First Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics
  3. (intransitive, nonce-word, nonstandard) To come through.
    • So I think we're all on journeys, according to how we're able to travel, overcome, undercome, and share what we have learned.2001, Harold Bloom, Maya Angelou

Questions about undercomes

What is undercomes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Undercomes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of undercome.

Words near undercomes in the dictionary

  1. undercolour
  2. undercoloured
  3. undercolouring
  4. undercolours
  5. undercome
  6. undercomes
  7. undercoming
  8. undercommander
  9. undercommanders
  10. undercomment
  11. undercommented

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