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understirring

understirring is the present participle and gerund of understir.

Meaning of understir

Verb

understir (third-person singular simple present understirs, present participle understirring, simple past and past participle understirred)

  1. (transitive) To stir too little.

Questions about understirring

What is understirring the present participle and gerund of?
Understirring is the present participle and gerund of understir.

Words near understirring in the dictionary

  1. understimulates
  2. understimulating
  3. understimulation
  4. understir
  5. understirred
  6. understirring
  7. understirs
  8. understitch
  9. understitched
  10. understitches
  11. understitching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: understirring (page history and authors); understir (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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