underdo
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of underdo
Example Sentences
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I hope I don’t overdo it or underdo it,’” Mirren says, speaking alongside McKellen at the Corinthia Hotel in London.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2019
We don’t want her to underdo her job.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2015
“All authentication in the end is about being risk-based. You don’t want to overdo security because that can create user burdens, but you don’t want to underdo it because that creates risk.”
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2015
Sometimes the local people overdo the publicity, and sometimes they underdo it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence the business man, if he is a good one, will take greater care not to overdo or underdo things than the scientific man can reasonably be expected to take.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler
“We underdid it in the great financial crisis, so we overdid it here,” said Patrick Harker, who was president of the Philadelphia Fed for a decade before stepping down last June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Certainly if there were any fault in Mr Codlin's usual deportment, it was that he rather underdid his kindness to those about him, than overdid it.
From The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Powell, as well, said that even though "the risks of sort of overdoing it and underdoing it are getting closer to being balanced," the focus remains on inflation.
From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2023
But Fed officials are also worried about underdoing it.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
Flanker Jamie Ritchie is out for the tournament after underdoing surgery on the hamstring injury suffered in last weekend's opening win over England.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2022
“The historical record is thick with examples of underdoing it,” Powell responded.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
From allopathic "overdoing" the pendulum has swung to the other extreme of metaphysical nihilism, to the "underdoing" of mental and metaphysical systems of treating human ailments.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
They believe the man, who got a tapeworm from eating underdone pork, infected himself.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024
The residual heat will cook any lingering underdone egg, melt the cheese, and warm up the other additions.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2023
Even noodles that you plan to pan-fry into a crispy “noodle pillow,” as Nguyen puts it, before adding toppings can stand to be a little underdone.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2021
“He comes in a little bit underdone but I’m fortunate he’s a guy who can light it up when he needs to and I think he’s a guy that this format will suit.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2019
The rabbit was a shade underdone, but tasted wonderful.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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