undersend

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verb

To send beneath, under, or through; submit.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbundersend (third-person singular simple present undersends, present participle undersending, simple past and past participle undersent)

present singular third person undersends · participle present undersending · participle past undersent · past undersent

  1. transitiveTo send beneath, under, or through; submit.

    Is sorry Sir Bassingbourne should have so much trouble in getting his glass. Undersends the charge.

    1895, Francis Rye, Mrs. Amy (Haslam) Rye, Walter Rye, Calendar of correspondence and documents
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    About the time when the United States undersent a change in its status, the change projected into the Korea-United States relations was expressed in the form of the problem of the U.S. troop withdrawal.

    1977, Han'guk Chŏngsin Munhwa Yŏn'guwŏn, Korea observer

    […] ICD oversensing of pacing stimuli, ICD underdetection of ventricular arrhythmias owing to the presence of pacing stimuli (which in turn result from undersending of the arrhythmia), and direct damage to the pacing system […]

    2007, Fred M. Kusumoto, Nora F. Goldschlager, Cardiac Pacing for the Clinician
  2. ambitransitiveTo send less than required, needed, or requested.

    […] for you to oversend something, couldn't it have been just as easy to undersend something?

    2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20160305005336/https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=14372&tstart=-1
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    One approach would be to build a meter that looks at the very long-term average rate, and allows the TCP to send so long as that average is less than the target rate. However, this has the severe drawback that if the TCP undersends for some time because it has no data to send, it builds up a credit in the meter that allows it to exceed the average rate for an excessive time.

    1997, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-clark-diff-svc-alloc-00

    Better to over send than undersend. I wouldn't give the triage colors to dispatch, because, quite honestly, they don't care.

    2011, http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=24073&page=2
nounundersend (plural undersends)

plural undersends

  1. That which is undersent or submitted.

    We are also able to evaluate oversends and undersends and trends in our system.

    2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20130315153440/http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/ems/community/emdprogram.aspx?print=1

Origin

  1. Middle English*undersenden
  2. Englishundersend

From Middle English *undersenden (attested only in the past participle undersent), equivalent to under- + send. Compare Dutch onderzenden, Middle High German undersenden.

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APA

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MLA

“undersend.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undersend. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undersend,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undersend.

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