underwarm

present singular third person underwarms · participle present underwarming · participle past underwarmed · past underwarmed

1. transitiveTo warm insufficiently; To fail to provide with the expected or required amount of heat.

   Near-synonym: underheat

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   Some workers, now underpaid, underfed, underwarmed, and badly clothed, would quickly respond to improved conditions and pay, and would in a short time become really more efficient.

   1907, B. L. Hutchins, Home Work and Sweating: The Causes and the Remedies, page 18

   All that need be done is to increase the purchasing power of the millions of impoverished, underfed, underclothed, underwarmed, and underhoused men, women, and children in our industrial centers and the demand will follow.

   1921, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page 8452

   Underfed and underwarmed, he had a hard time of it, and one may guess that his resistance to disease in after-life was weakened by the almost Dotheboys Hall conditions, but those were days when almost all schools 'did the boys'.

   1925, Percy Alfred Scholes, The Listener's History of Music, page 164

   but the results of slight underwarming were not immediately obvious.

   1978, John C. Sinclair, Temperature Regulation and Energy Metabolism in the Newborn, page x

   Yet a substantial 'underwarming' still remains compared to model estimates […]

   2003, James M. Griffin, Global Climate Change: The Science, Economics and Politics, page 249

   Synonyms: underheat · Antonyms: overwarm

2. transitiveTo heat from below.

   But I have been unable to recommend the appointment of the former on account of the rule introduced by the circular of the 14th of January 1854, —that no pupil-teacher should be allowed in schools where the floors were not either boarded or underwarmed.

   1856, H.G. Bowyer, “General Report of the Year 1855, by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools”, in Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, page 63

comparative more underwarm · superlative most underwarm

1. Insufficiently warm.

   Overdressed and underwarm. But when the boss gives me an assignment, I go.

   2020, Rebecca Chastain, A Fistful of Magic

   Antonyms: overwarm