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undertraining

undertraining is the present participle and gerund of undertrain.

Meaning of undertrain

Verb

undertrain (third-person singular simple present undertrains, present participle undertraining, simple past and past participle undertrained)

  1. (ambitransitive) To train less than required or normal.
    • So the danger for me is that I overtrain, not undertrain.2015 August 7, Kate Carter, “Mara Yamauchi: 'When you go out to run, there’s just nothing better'”, in The Guardian

Questions about undertraining

What is undertraining the present participle and gerund of?
Undertraining is the present participle and gerund of undertrain.

Words near undertraining in the dictionary

  1. undertows
  2. undertrack
  3. undertracks
  4. undertrain
  5. undertrained
  6. undertraining
  7. undertrains
  8. undertranslate
  9. undertranslated
  10. undertranslates
  11. undertranslating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undertraining (page history and authors); undertrain (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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