understate
verb (used with object)
to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms.
am understating
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present progressiveof understate (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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And when I say it puzzled me like the dickens, I am understating it; if anything.
From Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
I assure you, sir, that throughout I am understating the case.
From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Laurence Housman
