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understimulating

understimulating is the present participle and gerund of understimulate.

Meaning of understimulate

Verb

understimulate (third-person singular simple present understimulates, present participle understimulating, simple past and past participle understimulated)

  1. (transitive) To stimulate too little or infrequently; to provide with insufficient stimulation.
    • Thus, as Wing and Brown (1970) observed, an understimulating "back ward" may lead to withdrawal and a lack of external social stimulation and support.1992, Robert Paul Liberman, Handbook of psychiatric rehabilitation

Questions about understimulating

What is understimulating the present participle and gerund of?
Understimulating is the present participle and gerund of understimulate.

Words near understimulating in the dictionary

  1. understewardship
  2. understewardships
  3. understimulate
  4. understimulated
  5. understimulates
  6. understimulating
  7. understimulation
  8. understir
  9. understirred
  10. understirring
  11. understirs

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