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underwhipping

underwhipping is the present participle and gerund of underwhip.

Meaning of underwhip

Verb

underwhip (third-person singular simple present underwhips, present participle underwhipping, simple past and past participle underwhipped)

  1. To fail to whip enough.

Questions about underwhipping

What is underwhipping the present participle and gerund of?
Underwhipping is the present participle and gerund of underwhip.

Words near underwhipping in the dictionary

  1. underwhelming
  2. underwhelmingly
  3. underwhelms
  4. underwhip
  5. underwhipped
  6. underwhipping
  7. underwhips
  8. underwind
  9. underwinding
  10. underwinds
  11. underwing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underwhipping (page history and authors); underwhip (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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