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underranks

underranks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 underranks

What is underranks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Underranks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of underrank.

Words near underranks in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underranks (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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