"undersing" meaning in English

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          "text": "…the enthusiastic borderism of Scott, who, rather than that a freebooter should under-act his part, or a bard undersing his praise, took the liberty of sometimes inventing the action and then resounding its glories, and debiting both to the account of originals, quite innocent of either."
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          "text": "But the night’s true indictment of country’s man problem was the dullness of the performances by male stars exponentially more famous than Mr. Stapleton: Zac Brown, undersinging on “Beautiful Drug”; Kenny Chesney’s lethargic turn on “Save It for a Rainy Day”; Blake Shelton mugging for the cameras on “Gonna,” Dierks Bentley needlessly stoic on “Riser.”",
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        "To sing inadequately, or with too little vocal effort."
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          "ref": "1851, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Prometheus Bound",
          "text": "Alas me! what a murmur and motion I hear,\nAs of birds flying near!\nAnd the air undersings\nThe soft stroke of their wings—\nAnd all life that approaches, I wait for in fear.",
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        "To sing beneath, or in accompaniment to; to sing an undersong."
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        "(transitive) To sing beneath, or in accompaniment to; to sing an undersong."
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