"underferment" meaning in English

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    {
      "word": "overferment"
    }
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      "expansion": "under- + ferment",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "under- + ferment",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "underferments",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underfermenting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underfermented",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underfermented",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "underferment (third-person singular simple present underferments, present participle underfermenting, simple past and past participle underfermented)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Lauryn Chun, Olga Massov, The Kimchi Cookbook",
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ferment insufficiently."
      ],
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          "intransitive",
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        ],
        [
          "ferment",
          "ferment"
        ],
        [
          "insufficient",
          "insufficient"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To ferment insufficiently."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "underferment"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "overferment"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
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        "2": "under",
        "3": "ferment"
      },
      "expansion": "under- + ferment",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "under- + ferment",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "underferments",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underfermenting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underfermented",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underfermented",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "underferment (third-person singular simple present underferments, present participle underfermenting, simple past and past participle underfermented)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English intransitive verbs",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Lauryn Chun, Olga Massov, The Kimchi Cookbook",
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ferment insufficiently."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
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        ],
        [
          "insufficient",
          "insufficient"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To ferment insufficiently."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "underferment"
}