"understimulate" meaning in English

See understimulate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-understimulate.wav Forms: understimulates [present, singular, third-person], understimulating [participle, present], understimulated [participle, past], understimulated [past]
Etymology: From under- + stimulate. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|under|stimulate}} under- + stimulate Head templates: {{en-verb}} understimulate (third-person singular simple present understimulates, present participle understimulating, simple past and past participle understimulated)
  1. (transitive) To stimulate too little or infrequently; to provide with insufficient stimulation. Tags: transitive

Inflected forms

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