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undersaid

undersaid is the simple past and past participle of undersay.

Meaning of undersay

Verb

undersay (third-person singular simple present undersays, present participle undersaying, simple past and past participle undersaid)

  1. (obsolete) To say by way of derogation or contradiction.
    • They say, they con to heaven the highway; But by my soul I dare undersay, They never set foot on that same troad, But balke their right way, and strayen abroad.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Ægloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC
  2. To understate.
    • My words undersay it, of course; I mean something rarer than critical, something better than ethical, and perhaps I had better retreat upon such a word as spiritual.1899, W.D. Howells, “The New Poetry”, in The North American Review, volume 168, page 586

Questions about undersaid

What is undersaid the simple past and past participle of?
Undersaid is the simple past and past participle of undersay.

Words near undersaid in the dictionary

  1. underrunning
  2. underruns
  3. unders
  4. undersacristan
  5. undersacristans
  6. undersaid
  7. undersailed
  8. undersalaried
  9. undersalt
  10. undersalted
  11. undersalting

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