underwarm
underwarm verb: to warm insufficiently; To fail to provide with the expected or required amount of heat.
Verb
underwarm (third-person singular simple present underwarms, present participle underwarming, simple past and past participle underwarmed)
- To warm insufficiently; To fail to provide with the expected or required amount of heat.
- Near-synonym: underheat
- Some workers, now underpaid, underfed, underwarmed, and badly clothed, would quickly respond to improved conditions and pay, and would in a short time become really more efficient.1907, B. L. Hutchins, Home Work and Sweating: The Causes and the Remedies, page 18
- To heat from below.
- But I have been unable to recommend the appointment of the former on account of the rule introduced by the circular of the 14th of January 1854, —that no pupil-teacher should be allowed in schools where the floors were not either boarded or underwarmed.1856, H.G. Bowyer, “General Report of the Year 1855, by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools”, in Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, page 63
Adjective
underwarm (comparative more underwarm, superlative most underwarm)
- Insufficiently warm.
- Overdressed and underwarm. But when the boss gives me an assignment, I go.2020, Rebecca Chastain, A Fistful of Magic
- Antonyms:
- overwarm
Examples of underwarm in a sentence
- but the results of slight underwarming were not immediately obvious.1978, John C. Sinclair, Temperature Regulation and Energy Metabolism in the Newborn, page x:
- Yet a substantial 'underwarming' still remains compared to model estimates […]2003, James M. Griffin, Global Climate Change: The Science, Economics and Politics, page 249:
- Using nasopharyngeal temperature to avoid hyperthermia and rectal/bladder temperature to avoid underwarming may be the safest technique.2012, Frederick A. Hensley, Donald Eugene Martin, Glenn P. Gravlee, A Practical Approach to Cardiac Anesthesia, page 238:
- And the remains of Joe's dinner—an underwarmed hamburger paired with shoestring fries—dotted the landscape in front of the stove, overturned in their too-brief struggle.2016, Brian Michael Bendis, Powers: The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim:
Synonyms of underwarm
Antonyms
Forms of underwarm
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | underwarms |
| present participle | underwarming |
| past participle | underwarmed |
| past | underwarmed |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more underwarm |
| superlative | most underwarm |
Origin of underwarm
From under- + warm.
Questions about underwarm
- What does underwarm mean?
- Underwarm means to warm insufficiently; To fail to provide with the expected or required amount of heat.
- How do you use underwarm in a sentence?
- but the results of slight underwarming were not immediately obvious.
- What part of speech is underwarm?
- Underwarm can be a verb or an adjective.
- What is the past tense of underwarm?
- The past tense of underwarm is underwarmed.
Words near underwarm in the dictionary
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