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undersalting

undersalting is the present participle and gerund of undersalt.

Meaning of undersalt

Verb

undersalt (third-person singular simple present undersalts, present participle undersalting, simple past and past participle undersalted)

  1. (transitive) To season (food) with too little salt.
    • We also learned we overcooked it, undersalted the water and often used the wrong shape.2007 October 17, Mark Bittman, “Serving Pasta? Forget What You Learned”, in New York Times

Questions about undersalting

What is undersalting the present participle and gerund of?
Undersalting is the present participle and gerund of undersalt.

Words near undersalting in the dictionary

  1. undersaid
  2. undersailed
  3. undersalaried
  4. undersalt
  5. undersalted
  6. undersalting
  7. undersalts
  8. undersample
  9. undersampled
  10. undersamples
  11. undersampling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undersalting (page history and authors); undersalt (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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