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underranking

underranking is the present participle and gerund 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 underranking

What is underranking the present participle and gerund of?
Underranking is the present participle and gerund of underrank.

Words near underranking in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underranking (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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