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underfishing

underfishing is the present participle and gerund of underfish.

Meaning of underfish

Verb

underfish (third-person singular simple present underfishes, present participle underfishing, simple past and past participle underfished)

  1. To fish less than would still be sustainable; to underuse (an area) for fishing.

Questions about underfishing

What is underfishing the present participle and gerund of?
Underfishing is the present participle and gerund of underfish.

Words near underfishing in the dictionary

  1. underfires
  2. underfiring
  3. underfish
  4. underfished
  5. underfishes
  6. underfishing
  7. underfit
  8. underfit stream
  9. underfit streams
  10. underfits
  11. underfitted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underfishing (page history and authors); underfish (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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