underreach

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verb

To reach insufficiently far; to underachieve.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verbunderreach (third-person singular simple present underreaches, present participle underreaching, simple past and past participle underreached)

present singular third person underreaches · participle present underreaching · participle past underreached · past underreached

  1. intransitiveTo reach insufficiently far; to underachieve.

    If anything, she is underreaching with “Women From Antwerp in November, 2007,” which appears on a band of five relatively small screens.

    2008 April 26, Roberta Smith, “Levitation and Smoking: Signature Images in Video Works”, in New York Times

Origin

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APA

underreach. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underreach

MLA

“underreach.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underreach. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “underreach,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underreach.

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