"underferment" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underferment.wav Forms: underferments [present, singular, third-person], underfermenting [participle, present], underfermented [participle, past], underfermented [past]
Etymology: From under- + ferment. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|under|ferment}} under- + ferment Head templates: {{en-verb}} underferment (third-person singular simple present underferments, present participle underfermenting, simple past and past participle underfermented)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To ferment insufficiently. Tags: intransitive, transitive

Inflected forms

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