"undersee" meaning in All languages combined

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        "2": "onderzien",
        "3": "",
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    },
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        "2": "untersehen",
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  "etymology_text": "From under- + see. Cognate with Dutch onderzien (“to see below”), German untersehen (“to see below”).",
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    {
      "form": "undersees",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "underseeing",
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      "form": "undersaw",
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          "text": "Newfoundland guides, trying to point out to a fisherman a salmon in the water, may say: \"You have to undersee the shine.\" Ken has a remarkable ability to \"undersee the shine.\" He is not deceived by surfaces.",
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        "To see or look under or below; see below the surface of."
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          "look",
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          "surface",
          "surface"
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        "(transitive) To see or look under or below; see below the surface of."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1978, Karl D. Jackson, Lucian W. Pye, Political power and communications in Indonesia",
          "text": "At these less visible but still crucial levels, a substantial military presence would appear to have strengthened the capacity of the government to implement policy, by toughening the chain of command and by enabling officers to play watchdog roles \"underseeing\" civilian ministers.",
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        "To look intently into; examine; inspect."
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        "(transitive) To look intently into; examine; inspect."
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          "ref": "2002, Nicholas Weinstock, As Long As She Needs Me",
          "text": "But he didn't read books; he only oversaw, or undersaw, the niggling details of their mass production.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Wendelin Van Draanen, Stephen Gilpin, The Power Potion",
          "text": "Damien took an alternate route to oversee (or, more accurately, undersee) the execution of his dirty work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Georgia O'Keeffe, Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One",
          "text": "Perhaps I was too fond of him at one time—perhaps too fond still—to be entirely fair to his work—Perhaps “oversaw” it formerly—when he potentially lived in me—& “undersee” it now when I am impatient with all tricks [...]",
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        "(transitive) To neglect; fail to see properly or adequately; turn a blind eye to; ignore."
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        "4": "to see below"
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        "(transitive) To see or look under or below; see below the surface of."
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        }
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          "text": "But he didn't read books; he only oversaw, or undersaw, the niggling details of their mass production.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Wendelin Van Draanen, Stephen Gilpin, The Power Potion",
          "text": "Damien took an alternate route to oversee (or, more accurately, undersee) the execution of his dirty work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Georgia O'Keeffe, Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One",
          "text": "Perhaps I was too fond of him at one time—perhaps too fond still—to be entirely fair to his work—Perhaps “oversaw” it formerly—when he potentially lived in me—& “undersee” it now when I am impatient with all tricks [...]",
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        "(transitive) To neglect; fail to see properly or adequately; turn a blind eye to; ignore."
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