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underexercise

underexercise noun: insufficient exercise.

Noun

underexercise (uncountable)

  1. Insufficient exercise.

Verb

underexercise (third-person singular simple present underexercises, present participle underexercising, simple past and past participle underexercised)

  1. (intransitive) To take too little exercise.
    • Overeating and underexercising will lead to obesity.

Forms of underexercise

third-person singular presentunderexercises
present participleunderexercising
past participleunderexercised
pastunderexercised

Origin of underexercise

From under- + exercise.

Questions about underexercise

What does underexercise mean?
Underexercise means insufficient exercise.
What part of speech is underexercise?
Underexercise can be a noun or a verb.

Words near underexercise in the dictionary

  1. underexaggerates
  2. underexaggerating
  3. underexamined
  4. underexclusive
  5. underexcretion
  6. underexercise
  7. underexercised
  8. underexercises
  9. underexercising
  10. underexpanded
  11. underexpansion

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