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undergrade

undergrade adjective: having the truss below the roadway, as in a deck bridge.

Adjective

undergrade (not comparable)

  1. (bridge-building) Having the truss below the roadway, as in a deck bridge.

Verb

undergrade (third-person singular simple present undergrades, present participle undergrading, simple past and past participle undergraded)

  1. To award too low a grade to a student or a piece of work.

Forms of undergrade

third-person singular presentundergrades
present participleundergrading
past participleundergraded
pastundergraded

Origin of undergrade

From under- + grade.

Questions about undergrade

What does undergrade mean?
Undergrade means having the truss below the roadway, as in a deck bridge.
What part of speech is undergrade?
Undergrade can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near undergrade in the dictionary

  1. undergovernor
  2. undergovernors
  3. undergown
  4. undergowns
  5. undergrad
  6. undergrade
  7. undergraded
  8. undergrades
  9. undergrading
  10. undergrads
  11. undergraduacy

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