"underpunctuate" meaning in English

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    }
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        "1": "en",
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        "3": "punctuate"
      },
      "expansion": "under- + punctuate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From under- + punctuate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "underpunctuates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underpunctuating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underpunctuated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underpunctuated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with under-",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1893, John F[ranklin] Genung, “The Sentence”, in Outlines of Rhetoric Embodied in Rules, Illustrative Examples, and a Progressive Course of Prose Composition, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., London: Ginn & Company, part II (Organization of Materials), chapter section II (Punctuation of the Sentence), page 191",
          "text": "Do not overpunctuate; it is much easier than to underpunctuate. The general tendency nowadays is to make punctuation less copious than formerly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke, Good English: Book Two: The Elements of Composition, The Macmillan Company, page 163",
          "text": "Do not overpunctuate. But do not underpunctuate. Make your sentence constructions so clear that it will be possible for you to keep punctuation at a minimum.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Terence Tobin, Letters of George Ade, page 12",
          "text": "[George] Ade tended to underpunctuate. The punctuation of the letters and the capitalization which was a trademark remain as they appear in the copy texts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, David Omissi, “Editorial Note”, in Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers’ Letters, 1914–18, Palgrave Macmillan, page xxiii",
          "text": "The translators tended to underpunctuate (perhaps reflecting their familiarity with the originals). I have therefore repunctuated many of the letters in accordance with accepted modern English usage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Peter Cochran, “Introduction: The Bisexual Byron”, in Byron and Women [and Men], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page lxvi",
          "text": "For example, much editorial ink has been spilled over the question, why did he [Lord Byron] underpunctuate his poetic manuscripts – or even whether his manuscripts are under-, or just Byronically-, punctuated.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To punctuate insufficiently."
      ],
      "id": "en-underpunctuate-en-verb-CQBOjURs",
      "links": [
        [
          "punctuate",
          "punctuate"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "underpunctuated"
        },
        {
          "word": "underpunctuation"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "underpunctuate"
}

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    {
      "word": "overpunctuate"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "under",
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      },
      "expansion": "under- + punctuate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From under- + punctuate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "underpunctuates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underpunctuating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underpunctuated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underpunctuated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "underpunctuated"
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    {
      "word": "underpunctuation"
    }
  ],
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        "English lemmas",
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        {
          "ref": "1893, John F[ranklin] Genung, “The Sentence”, in Outlines of Rhetoric Embodied in Rules, Illustrative Examples, and a Progressive Course of Prose Composition, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., London: Ginn & Company, part II (Organization of Materials), chapter section II (Punctuation of the Sentence), page 191",
          "text": "Do not overpunctuate; it is much easier than to underpunctuate. The general tendency nowadays is to make punctuation less copious than formerly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke, Good English: Book Two: The Elements of Composition, The Macmillan Company, page 163",
          "text": "Do not overpunctuate. But do not underpunctuate. Make your sentence constructions so clear that it will be possible for you to keep punctuation at a minimum.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Terence Tobin, Letters of George Ade, page 12",
          "text": "[George] Ade tended to underpunctuate. The punctuation of the letters and the capitalization which was a trademark remain as they appear in the copy texts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, David Omissi, “Editorial Note”, in Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers’ Letters, 1914–18, Palgrave Macmillan, page xxiii",
          "text": "The translators tended to underpunctuate (perhaps reflecting their familiarity with the originals). I have therefore repunctuated many of the letters in accordance with accepted modern English usage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Peter Cochran, “Introduction: The Bisexual Byron”, in Byron and Women [and Men], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page lxvi",
          "text": "For example, much editorial ink has been spilled over the question, why did he [Lord Byron] underpunctuate his poetic manuscripts – or even whether his manuscripts are under-, or just Byronically-, punctuated.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To punctuate insufficiently."
      ],
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        [
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          "punctuate"
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  "word": "underpunctuate"
}