"underween" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underween.wav Forms: underweens [present, singular, third-person], underweening [participle, present], underweened [participle, past], underweened [past]
Etymology: From under- + ween. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|under|ween}} under- + ween Head templates: {{en-verb}} underween (third-person singular simple present underweens, present participle underweening, simple past and past participle underweened)
  1. (transitive, rare or nonstandard) To undervalue. Tags: nonstandard, rare, transitive Derived forms: underweening

Inflected forms

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