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underweigh

underweigh is the alternative form of under way.

Meaning of under way

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) In operation, in progress, commenced.
    • A dearth of signalmen and the high cost of labour is hastening an elimination process that already was well under way before the second world war.1956 May, C. H. Betts, “St. Pancras Tunnel Signalbox”, in Railway Magazine, page 320
  2. Moving through the water; not anchored, moored, aground, or beached.
  3. Into motion, into its course.
    • The show finally got under way, just 10 minutes late.

Verb

underweigh (third-person singular simple present underweighs, present participle underweighing, simple past and past participle underweighed)

  1. To weigh insufficiently (indicating a too-small weight)

Forms of underweigh

third-person singular presentunderweighs
present participleunderweighing
past participleunderweighed
pastunderweighed

Questions about underweigh

What does underweigh mean?
Underweigh means to weigh insufficiently (indicating a too-small weight).
What is underweigh the alternative form of?
Underweigh is the alternative form of under way.
What part of speech is underweigh?
Underweigh is a verb.
What is the past tense of underweigh?
The past tense of underweigh is underweighed.

Words near underweigh in the dictionary

  1. underwebbing
  2. underween
  3. underweened
  4. underweening
  5. underweens
  6. underweigh
  7. underweighs
  8. underweight
  9. underweighted
  10. underweighting
  11. underweights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underweigh (page history and authors); under way (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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