"understep" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1897, Boot and Shoe Recorder - Volume 30, page 28",
          "text": "The Questers were many, and fortunately the Answerer did not too often overstep or understep the mark.",
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          "ref": "1963, G. A. Rauche, The philosophy of actuality, page 89",
          "text": "For the moment I experience the conflict as suffering and bear it, I no longer really move within problematic actuality but understep it.",
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          "ref": "1967, The Phi Delta Kappan - Volume 49, Issues 1-10, page 282",
          "text": "They will understep and overstep the bounds of propriety, and even of legality.",
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          "ref": "1989, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Government Information and Regulation, Reauthorization of the Paperwork Reduction Act",
          "text": "Either one of them overstep or understep their bounds at any one point in time.",
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          "ref": "2007, Andrew Stevenson, Studying Psychology, page 57",
          "text": "If you're working on a structured question check the number of marks allocated for each part of the question and divide up your words accordingly. Finally, don't understep the word limit.",
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          "ref": "1945, North eastern reporter. second series - Volume 60, page 499",
          "text": "If a sense of feeling gave him some knowledge of the width of the steps the fact that the third step was ⅝ of an inch wider could not cause him to overstep, but if it had any effect it would tend to cause him to understep.",
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          "ref": "2004, Johnny D. Hoskins, Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Dog and Cat, page 358",
          "text": "Cerebellar dysfunction is characterized by truncal ataxia, a broad-based stance, dysmetria in which the limbs either overstep (hypermetria) or understep (hypometria), and tremor that is most pronounced when the animal attempts a goal-orientated movement (intention tremor).",
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          "ref": "1932, Douglas Gordon, Field Philosophy, page 187",
          "text": "As a general rule, a stag treads more cleanly than a hind, his stride is longer, the slot itself being rounder and less elongated ; while a hind or young stag understeps frequently, leaving in consequence a more or less double track.",
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          "ref": "1984, Edie Lee Cohen, Sherman R. Emery, Dining by design, page 118",
          "text": "In the back room and understeps, recessed lights are used.",
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          "ref": "1984, Marc Lovell, How green was my apple, page 74",
          "text": "He hit his head on an understep and slammed back down again, gasping with pain.",
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          "ref": "2016, Amy Ignatow, The Mighty Odds",
          "text": "Jay had discovered the understeps before they had even gotten to middle school.",
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          "text": "Understeps were easy to detect, as the paw missed the rung entirely and the rat had to catch itself so it didn't stumble.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1963, G. A. Rauche, The philosophy of actuality, page 89",
          "text": "For the moment I experience the conflict as suffering and bear it, I no longer really move within problematic actuality but understep it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1967, The Phi Delta Kappan - Volume 49, Issues 1-10, page 282",
          "text": "They will understep and overstep the bounds of propriety, and even of legality.",
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          "ref": "1989, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Government Information and Regulation, Reauthorization of the Paperwork Reduction Act",
          "text": "Either one of them overstep or understep their bounds at any one point in time.",
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          "ref": "2007, Andrew Stevenson, Studying Psychology, page 57",
          "text": "If you're working on a structured question check the number of marks allocated for each part of the question and divide up your words accordingly. Finally, don't understep the word limit.",
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          "text": "As an instance of this inability to control the muscles well, may be cited the almost constant tendency to understep or overstep especially with the fore legs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1945, North eastern reporter. second series - Volume 60, page 499",
          "text": "If a sense of feeling gave him some knowledge of the width of the steps the fact that the third step was ⅝ of an inch wider could not cause him to overstep, but if it had any effect it would tend to cause him to understep.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Johnny D. Hoskins, Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Dog and Cat, page 358",
          "text": "Cerebellar dysfunction is characterized by truncal ataxia, a broad-based stance, dysmetria in which the limbs either overstep (hypermetria) or understep (hypometria), and tremor that is most pronounced when the animal attempts a goal-orientated movement (intention tremor).",
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        "To take a step that is not far enough forward."
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          "ref": "2010, Louis Liebenberg, Adriaan Louw, Mark Elbroch, Practical Tracking: A Guide to Following Footprints and Finding Animals",
          "text": "The resulting trail is an understep walk—the hind tracks in each pair register behind the front tracks.",
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          "ref": "2012, Jonathan Poppele, Animal Tracks: Midwest Edition, page 27",
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          "ref": "2012, Lawrence Mark Elbroch, Michael Kresky, Jonah Evans, Field Guide to Animal Tracks and Scat of California, page 49",
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          "text": "Written in minuscule script and placed on the shaded understep at the feet of the Virgin, the pious dedication was appropriate for the subject and its intended location.",
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          "text": "He hit his head on an understep and slammed back down again, gasping with pain.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Amy Ignatow, The Mighty Odds",
          "text": "Jay had discovered the understeps before they had even gotten to middle school.",
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        "The underside of a step."
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          "ref": "2012, Adam Wolfberg, Fragile Beginnings: Discoveries and Triumphs in the Newborn ICU",
          "text": "Understeps were easy to detect, as the paw missed the rung entirely and the rat had to catch itself so it didn't stumble.",
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