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underreplacing

underreplacing is the present participle and gerund of underreplace.

Meaning of underreplace

Verb

underreplace (third-person singular simple present underreplaces, present participle underreplacing, simple past and past participle underreplaced)

  1. To replace insufficiently
    • Therefore, even women with the highest increases due to child mortality severely underreplace their lost children.1975, CICRED, Seminar on Infant Mortality in Relation to the Level of Fertility, 6-12 May 1975, Bangkok, Thailand, page 240

Questions about underreplacing

What is underreplacing the present participle and gerund of?
Underreplacing is the present participle and gerund of underreplace.

Words near underreplacing in the dictionary

  1. underrep
  2. underreplace
  3. underreplaced
  4. underreplacement
  5. underreplaces
  6. underreplacing
  7. underreplicate
  8. underreplicated
  9. underreplicates
  10. underreplicating
  11. underreplication

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underreplacing (page history and authors); underreplace (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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