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undersearch

undersearch verb: to search insufficiently.

Verb

undersearch (third-person singular simple present undersearches, present participle undersearching, simple past and past participle undersearched)

  1. To search insufficiently.
    • But people undersearch far more than they oversearch: We tend to explore situations less thoroughly than our own goals recommend!1995, David Perkins, Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence

Forms of undersearch

third-person singular presentundersearches
present participleundersearching
past participleundersearched
pastundersearched

Origin of undersearch

From under- + search.

Questions about undersearch

What does undersearch mean?
Undersearch means to search insufficiently.
What part of speech is undersearch?
Undersearch is a verb.
What is the past tense of undersearch?
The past tense of undersearch is undersearched.

Words near undersearch in the dictionary

  1. undersealed
  2. undersealing
  3. underseals
  4. underseaman
  5. underseamen
  6. undersearch
  7. undersearched
  8. undersearches
  9. undersearching
  10. underseas
  11. underseason

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