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underseason

underseason verb: to season (flavour) insufficiently.

Verb

underseason (third-person singular simple present underseasons, present participle underseasoning, simple past and past participle underseasoned)

  1. (transitive) To season (flavour) insufficiently.
    • The Captain watched as I set the bowl down on my coffee table. “Do you think it needs pepper?” I asked, worried I under-seasoned it.2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 113

Forms of underseason

third-person singular presentunderseasons
present participleunderseasoning
past participleunderseasoned
pastunderseasoned
alternative formunder-season

Origin of underseason

From under- + season.

Questions about underseason

What does underseason mean?
Underseason means to season (flavour) insufficiently.
What part of speech is underseason?
Underseason is a verb.
What is the past tense of underseason?
The past tense of underseason is underseasoned.

Words near underseason in the dictionary

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

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