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underextends

underextends is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 underextends

What is underextends the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Underextends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of underextend.

Words near underextends in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underextends (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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