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understressing

understressing is the present participle and gerund 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 understressing

What is understressing the present participle and gerund of?
Understressing is the present participle and gerund of understress.

Words near understressing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: understressing (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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