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underreach

underreach verb: to reach insufficiently far; to underachieve.

Verb

underreach (third-person singular simple present underreaches, present participle underreaching, simple past and past participle underreached)

  1. (intransitive) To reach insufficiently far; to underachieve.
    • If anything, she is underreaching with “Women From Antwerp in November, 2007,” which appears on a band of five relatively small screens.2008 April 26, Roberta Smith, “Levitation and Smoking: Signature Images in Video Works”, in New York Times

underreach meaning in Tamil

underreach in Tamil

குறையெல்லை

Forms of underreach

third-person singular presentunderreaches
present participleunderreaching
past participleunderreached
pastunderreached

Origin of underreach

From under- + reach.

Questions about underreach

What does underreach mean?
Underreach means to reach insufficiently far; to underachieve.
What is underreach in Tamil?
Underreach in Tamil is குறையெல்லை. See Underreach meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is underreach?
Underreach is a verb.
What is the past tense of underreach?
The past tense of underreach is underreached.

Words near underreach in the dictionary

  1. underratedness
  2. underrater
  3. underraters
  4. underrates
  5. underrating
  6. underreach
  7. underreached
  8. underreaches
  9. underreaching
  10. underreact
  11. underreacted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underreach (page history and authors); underreach (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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