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undersought

undersought is the simple past and past participle of underseek.

Meaning of underseek

Verb

underseek (third-person singular simple present underseeks, present participle underseeking, simple past and past participle undersought)

  1. (transitive, otherwise rare) To examine; explore; investigate.
    • Hans parted his lips. "Underseeking your customs was the Kratzer's great work, and I have the sentence in my head that this example will please him. Perhaps.2007, Michael Flynn, Eifelheim - Page 206
  2. (transitive) To spend too little time or effort in seeking.
    • Bindman et al. (1995) found that there is little propensity to underseek care for serious conditions indicating that need can be a substantial motive for the use ^([sic]) health care services.2007, Paul Richard Brezinski, Veteran Status, Health Status, and Use of Health Services - Page 24

Questions about undersought

What is undersought the simple past and past participle of?
Undersought is the simple past and past participle of underseek.

Words near undersought in the dictionary

  1. undersold
  2. undersole
  3. undersoles
  4. undersong
  5. undersongs
  6. undersought
  7. undersound
  8. undersounds
  9. undersovereign
  10. undersovereigns
  11. undersow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undersought (page history and authors); underseek (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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