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underhooking

underhooking is the present participle and gerund of underhook.

Meaning of underhook

Verb

underhook (third-person singular simple present underhooks, present participle underhooking, simple past and past participle underhooked)

  1. (transitive) To use such a hold upon.

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Questions about underhooking

What is underhooking the present participle and gerund of?
Underhooking is the present participle and gerund of underhook.

Words near underhooking in the dictionary

  1. underhonest
  2. underhood
  3. underhoof
  4. underhook
  5. underhooked
  6. underhooking
  7. underhooks
  8. underhope
  9. underhopes
  10. underhopped
  11. underhorsed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underhooking (page history and authors); underhook (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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