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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

undersearch en · VERB

Etymology

From under- + search.

Meanings

  1. To search insufficiently.
    • But people undersearch far more than they oversearch: We tend to explore situations less thoroughly than our own goals recommend! 1995, David Perkins, Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence:

Forms

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undersearches Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
undersearched Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
undersearched Tense=Past lexicographic
undersearching Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic