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undermodifying

undermodifying is the present participle and gerund of undermodify.

Meaning of undermodify

Verb

undermodify (third-person singular simple present undermodifies, present participle undermodifying, simple past and past participle undermodified)

  1. To modify insufficiently.
    • In this light, it is possibly instructive that monkey cells as described in section III, when starved for methionine, undermodify the Y-base in phenylalanine tRNA so that it resembles the situation in tumor cells.1985, Anticancer Research, page 22

Questions about undermodifying

What is undermodifying the present participle and gerund of?
Undermodifying is the present participle and gerund of undermodify.

Words near undermodifying in the dictionary

  1. undermodification
  2. undermodifications
  3. undermodified
  4. undermodifies
  5. undermodify
  6. undermodifying
  7. undermodulation
  8. undermodulations
  9. undermonetized
  10. undermoneyed
  11. undermost

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