underrate
verb (used with object)
to rate or evaluate too low; underestimate.
was underrating
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past progressiveof underrate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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No, that was hardly the way to put it; it was underrating Bastian Cautley.
From Superseded by May Sinclair
For the first time in his life Jarwin’s heart sank within him—at least so he said in after years while talking of the event—but we suspect that John was underrating himself.
From Jarwin and Cuffy by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
