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underextending

underextending is the present participle and gerund of underextend.

Meaning of underextend

Verb

underextend (third-person singular simple present underextends, present participle underextending, simple past and past participle underextended)

  1. (transitive) To apply (a term) to too few referents, by underextension.

Questions about underextending

What is underextending the present participle and gerund of?
Underextending is the present participle and gerund of underextend.

Words near underextending in the dictionary

  1. underexpressing
  2. underexpression
  3. underexpressions
  4. underextend
  5. underextended
  6. underextending
  7. underextends
  8. underextension
  9. underextensions
  10. underextraction
  11. underextrapolation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underextending (page history and authors); underextend (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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