<B>underemphasize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-sized,</B> <B>-sizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to emphasize insufficiently; not stress enough. <BR> <I>Ex. Basic research is still underemphasized in the United States (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> </DL>
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<B>underemployed, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>not sufficiently employed: <DD><B> a. </B>not put to the fullest or most profitable use. <BR> <I>Ex. Lastly, I proceed on the hope ... that full employment will mean just that and not a body of workers fully paid but underemployed (Punch).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>working only part of the time. <BR> <I>Ex. One fourth of the labor force is out of work or underemployed (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>not employing or offering employment to enough people. <BR> <I>Ex. Some American railways, at the present time, are underemployed (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> underemployed people. </DL>
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<B>underemployment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being underemployed; insufficient or inadequate employment. </DL>
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<B>underequipped, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> lacking the necessary equipment; poorly or inadequately equipped. <BR> <I>Ex. The great need of the city of New York ... is the swift rehabilitation of its underequipped and insufficiently used system of rapid mass transportation (Lewis Mumford).</I> </DL>
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<B>underestimate, </B>verb, <B>-mated,</B> <B>-mating,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to estimate at too low a value, amount, rate, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. to underestimate the power of human endurance (John Buchan). Certainly she [Willa Cather] has been radically underestimated (Manchester Guardian).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an estimate that is too low. </DL>
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<B>underestimation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of estimating at too low a rate. <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of being so estimated; undervaluation. </DL>
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<B>underexpose, </B>transitive verb, <B>-posed,</B> <B>-posing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to expose too little. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Photography.) to expose (a film or negative) for a shorter time than required for the best results. </DL>
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<B>underexposure, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> too little or too short an exposure. Underexposure to light makes a photograph look dim. </DL>
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<B>underfall, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the slope of a foothill. </DL>
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<B>underfeed, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-fed,</B> <B>-feeding.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to feed too little; not give enough food or fuel to. <BR> <I>Ex. An underfed nation is incapable of the endurance required of first-class soldiers (William R. Inge).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to stoke with coal or other solid fuel from the bottom. </DL>
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<B>underfinanced, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> poorly or insufficiently financed. <BR> <I>Ex. Every time someone finds a new national need, understaffed, underfinanced schools are pressured to add new courses (Harper's).</I> </DL>
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<B>underfired, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>not fired or baked enough. <DD><B> 2. </B>supplied with fuel from below. </DL>
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<B>underfloor, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to floor below; make a lower floor for. </DL>
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<B>underflow, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a current flowing beneath the surface, or not in the same direction with the surface current, over a certain region; undercurrent. </DL>
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<B>underfoot, </B>adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adv. </I> <B>1. </B>under one's foot or feet; on the ground; underneath. <BR> <I>Ex. Katherine, that cap of yours becomes you not ... throw it underfoot (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>in the way. <BR> <I>Ex. She complained that her six small children were always getting underfoot.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> lying under the foot or feet; downtrodden; abject. </DL>
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<B>underfooting, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the ground under one's feet. </DL>
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<B>underframe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a structure or framework which supports the body of a railroad car, truck, or other vehicle; a chassis. </DL>
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<B>underfur, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the soft, fine hair under the outer coat of coarse hair of various mammals, such as beavers and some seals. </DL>
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<B>undergarment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a garment worn under another garment, especially next to the skin. </DL>
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<B>undergird, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to support or secure by a rope or the like passed beneath. </DL>
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<B>underglaze, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or designating a decoration, color, or the like, put on a ceramic object, such as a piece of majolica, stoneware or china, before a more or less transparent glaze is applied. <DD><I>noun </I> an underglaze color or decoration. </DL>
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<B>undergo, </B>transitive verb, <B>-went,</B> <B>-gone,</B> <B>-going.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to go through; pass through; be subjected to; experience. <BR> <I>Ex. to undergo a complete alteration in point of view. The town is undergoing many changes as more and more people are moving in.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to bear the burden of; endure; suffer. <BR> <I>Ex. Soldiers undergo many hardships.</I> </DL>
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<B>undergone, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past participle of <B>undergo.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The town has undergone great change in the last five years.</I> </DL>
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<B>undergrad, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) an undergraduate. <BR> <I>Ex. Seton Hall, with fewer than 4,000 undergrads, is noted mainly for its basketball teams (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>undergraduate, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a student in a college or university who has not yet received a degree. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or like undergraduates. <DD><B> 2. </B>for undergraduates. <DD><B> 3. </B>that is an undergraduate. </DL>
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<B>undergraduateship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition or standing of an undergraduate. </DL>
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<B>undergraduette, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a girl or woman undergraduate; coed. </DL>
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<B>underground, </B>adverb, adjective, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adv. </I> <B>1. </B>beneath the surface of the ground. <BR> <I>Ex. The mole burrowed underground. Miners work underground.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>in secrecy or concealment; concealed from the eyes of the public or authorities; surreptitiously. <BR> <I>Ex. Spies work underground.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>into secrecy or concealment. <BR> <I>Ex. The thief went underground after the robbery.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>being, working, or used beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean. <BR> <I>Ex. an underground passage.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>done or working secretly; concealed from the eyes of the public or some authority or authorities; secret; clandestine. <BR> <I>Ex. The revolt against the government was an underground plot. Until recently people [in Spain] suspected of underground activity had been arrested and courtmartialed (Gerald Brenan).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>of or having to do with the secret underground of a country. <BR> <I>Ex. an underground headquarters. During the war he had been chosen, it was said, as the underground leader of a very wide area in the event of a successful German invasion (Geoffrey Household).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) of or belonging to any group, organization, or movement outside the established society or culture. <BR> <I>Ex. the underground press, underground filmmakers, underground music, underground churches.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a place or space beneath the surface of the ground. <DD><B> 2. </B>(British.) a subterranean railroad; subway. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a secret organization working to overthrow an unpopular government, especially during military occupation. <BR> <I>Ex. The French underground protected many American fliers shot down over France during World War II. We ... fought side by side in the anti-Fascist underground (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>any group, organization, or movement whose activities are outside the established society or culture. <BR> <I>Ex. What these film makers, who proudly identify themselves as the "underground," profess to want is the freedom to create motion pictures in accordance with their own, intensely personal artistic visions, untrammeled by anything that has gone before (Arthur Knight). The Catholic "underground" has removed worship from the sanctuary entirely and transferred it to private homes (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to place or lay underground. <BR> <I>Ex. The President's Conference on Natural Beauty specifically recommended widespread undergrounding of low voltage distribution lines (New York Times).</I> noun <B>undergrounder.</B> </DL>
