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undersearching

undersearching is the present participle and gerund of undersearch.

Meaning of undersearch

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

Questions about undersearching

What is undersearching the present participle and gerund of?
Undersearching is the present participle and gerund of undersearch.

Words near undersearching in the dictionary

  1. underseaman
  2. underseamen
  3. undersearch
  4. undersearched
  5. undersearches
  6. undersearching
  7. underseas
  8. underseason
  9. underseasoned
  10. underseasoning
  11. underseasons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undersearching (page history and authors); undersearch (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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