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understressed

understressed is the simple past and past participle of understress.

Meaning of understress

Verb

understress (third-person singular simple present understresses, present participle understressing, simple past and past participle understressed)

  1. (transitive) To place insufficient emphasis on.
    Synonyms:
    underemphasize

Questions about understressed

What is understressed the simple past and past participle of?
Understressed is the simple past and past participle of understress.

Words near understressed in the dictionary

  1. understratums
  2. understream
  3. understreams
  4. understrength
  5. understress
  6. understressed
  7. understresses
  8. understressing
  9. understride
  10. understrides
  11. understriding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: understressed (page history and authors); understress (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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