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underranked

underranked is the simple past and past participle of underrank.

Meaning of underrank

Verb

underrank (third-person singular simple present underranks, present participle underranking, simple past and past participle underranked)

  1. (transitive) To rank lower than.
    • In the military, a private underranks a colonel.
  2. (transitive) To ascribe too low a rank to.
    • Embarrassingly, I underranked the colonel by addressing him as "private".

Questions about underranked

What is underranked the simple past and past participle of?
Underranked is the simple past and past participle of underrank.

Words near underranked in the dictionary

  1. underran
  2. underrang
  3. underranger
  4. underrangers
  5. underrank
  6. underranked
  7. underranking
  8. underranks
  9. underrate
  10. underrated
  11. underratedly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underranked (page history and authors); underrank (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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