"undermaintain" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From under- + maintain.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "undermaintains",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "undermaintaining",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "undermaintained",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "undermaintained",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1945 November snd December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 329:",
          "text": "For some years locomotives and coaches have been overworked and undermaintained to a degree without precedent in British railway history, and the leeway in maintenance now to be made up is very great.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 February 18, Jake Mooney, “A Case of the Shivers”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.",
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        "To maintain inadequately; to allow to fall into disrepair."
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          "inadequate",
          "inadequate"
        ],
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          "disrepair",
          "disrepair"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive) To maintain inadequately; to allow to fall into disrepair."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "undermaintain"
}

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From under- + maintain.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "undermaintains",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "undermaintaining",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "undermaintained",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "undermaintained",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1945 November snd December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 329:",
          "text": "For some years locomotives and coaches have been overworked and undermaintained to a degree without precedent in British railway history, and the leeway in maintenance now to be made up is very great.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 February 18, Jake Mooney, “A Case of the Shivers”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To maintain inadequately; to allow to fall into disrepair."
      ],
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          "maintain"
        ],
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          "inadequate",
          "inadequate"
        ],
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          "disrepair",
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        ]
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        "(transitive) To maintain inadequately; to allow to fall into disrepair."
      ],
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  "word": "undermaintain"
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