underrun

American  

[uhn-der-ruhn] / ˌʌn dərˈrʌn /

verb (used with object)

underran, underrun, underrunning

1. to run, pass, or go under.

2. Nautical. to pass beneath (a stretched rope, net, etc.) in a boat or the like for the purpose of inspection or repairs.

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noun

1. something that runs or passes underneath, as a current.

2. an instance of costing or spending less than estimated.

3. a production run of a manufactured or printed item below the quantity ordered.

Etymology

Origin of underrun

First recorded in 1540–50; under- + run

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Example Sentences

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underrun underran underrunning

“We’ve underrun our 2% inflation expectation almost since we announced it in 2012.”

From Reuters ● Sep. 30, 2021

“If inflation continues to underrun target levels similar to the past six years, the downward trend in inflation expectations will likely continue,” Williams said.

From Reuters ● Jan. 9, 2020

Inflation, which fell sharply to 0.7 percent in the last quarter of 2011, will also continue to underrun the Fed's target for years to come, Williams said.

From Reuters ● Feb. 8, 2012

I just made one stop to underrun William's trawl till I come to jes' such a fish's I thought you'd want to make one o' your nice chowders of.

From The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

"That 'seventeen' white pine is going to underrun," said Dyer.

From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

Cold air, moving in from the great blizzard, underran warm air in Arkansas and Louisiana and tripped off an eccentric series of tornadoes.

From Time Magazine Archive

She made the statement in her usual soft tones, but a slight tremor of excitement underran her voice.

From The Masquerader by Katherine Cecil Thurston

A mild current of wanting to see Nancy underran all his days; he could control it, he decided, and to an extent he did.

From Undertow by Kathleen Thompson Norris

He did not hear the faintly hysterical note that underran her voice—the note of warning from a mind trying with panic-stricken haste to evade itself.

From The Gambler A Novel by Katherine Cecil Thurston

Treacherous shoals underran it, biting rocks pierced up in saw-toothed reefs, the bitterest gales of all the seas swept in leaden wastes.

From The Harbor of Doubt by George W. Gage

Cold air was pressing south from Canada, underrunning the warm air drift, creating an area of low barometric pressure that moved from eastern Nebraska through Iowa, western Wisconsin, across western Lake Superior.

From Time Magazine Archive

It threw up shoots everywhere, and no sooner was one cut down than from roots underrunning the whole domain of political thought others sprang up with a vigorous and baleful growth.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Ambrose Bierce

There was a good deal of sea underrunning the ice, and it required the greatest skill and watchfulness to prevent disaster.

From Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 by Various

Ask him,” he leered around the room, an insinuating accent that was unmistakable underrunning the words.

From Once to Every Man by Anton Otto Fischer

This is only a big-scale diagram, but with a little attention you can see the tribal instinct of self-preservation quite logically underrunning all sorts of queer modern developments.

From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Rudyard Kipling

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