"underferment" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From under- + ferment.",
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      "form": "underfermenting",
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    {
      "form": "underfermented",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1882, The tea cyclopædia. Articles on tea, tea science [&c.].:",
          "text": "To obtain a raw, rasping and pungent flavor I am compelled to underferment, the indication of which is that the colour of infused leaves are of a greenish brown tint.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Lauren Chattman, The Baking Answer Book:",
          "text": "Beginning bakers are much more likely to underferment and underproof their dough than to overferment and overproof, due to lack of experience combined with a lack of patience.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Lauryn Chun, Olga Massov, The Kimchi Cookbook, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Be mindful that if you underferment your kimchi or open the jar too soon and expose it to oxygen, it will taste bitter or \"oil\" or have a slight chemical smell, but this is quite natural.",
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        "To ferment insufficiently."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To ferment insufficiently."
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  "word": "underferment"
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  "etymology_text": "From under- + ferment.",
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      "form": "underfermented",
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          "ref": "1882, The tea cyclopædia. Articles on tea, tea science [&c.].:",
          "text": "To obtain a raw, rasping and pungent flavor I am compelled to underferment, the indication of which is that the colour of infused leaves are of a greenish brown tint.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Lauryn Chun, Olga Massov, The Kimchi Cookbook, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Be mindful that if you underferment your kimchi or open the jar too soon and expose it to oxygen, it will taste bitter or \"oil\" or have a slight chemical smell, but this is quite natural.",
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To ferment insufficiently."
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  "word": "underferment"
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