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undercorrect

undercorrect verb: to correct insufficiently.

Verb

undercorrect (third-person singular simple present undercorrects, present participle undercorrecting, simple past and past participle undercorrected)

  1. to correct insufficiently
    • It has long been known that, if range restriction is indirect rather than direct, this formula will undercorrect.

Forms of undercorrect

third-person singular presentundercorrects
present participleundercorrecting
past participleundercorrected
pastundercorrected

Origin of undercorrect

From under- + correct.

Questions about undercorrect

What does undercorrect mean?
Undercorrect means to correct insufficiently.
What part of speech is undercorrect?
Undercorrect is a verb.
What is the past tense of undercorrect?
The past tense of undercorrect is undercorrected.

Words near undercorrect in the dictionary

  1. undercooper
  2. undercoopers
  3. undercoordinated
  4. undercoordination
  5. undercoordinations
  6. undercorrect
  7. undercorrected
  8. undercorrecting
  9. undercorrection
  10. undercorrections
  11. undercorrects

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