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underdrove

underdrove is the simple past of underdrive.

Meaning of underdrive

Verb

underdrive (third-person singular simple present underdrives, present participle underdriving, simple past underdrove, past participle underdriven)

  1. (transitive) To slow the rate of rotation in (a pulley-based system).

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Questions about underdrove

What is underdrove the simple past of?
Underdrove is the simple past of underdrive.

Words near underdrove in the dictionary

  1. underdrifts
  2. underdrive
  3. underdriven
  4. underdrives
  5. underdriving
  6. underdrove
  7. underdry
  8. underdrying
  9. underdue
  10. underdug
  11. underearn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underdrove (page history and authors); underdrive (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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