underwash

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verb

To wash too little or too infrequently.

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Meanings

verbunderwash (third-person singular simple present underwashes, present participle underwashing, simple past and past participle underwashed)

present singular third person underwashes · participle present underwashing · participle past underwashed · past underwashed

  1. transitiveTo wash too little or too infrequently.
  2. transitiveTo wash beneath.

    Right on the beach was a mighty old cocoa-nut tree, the roots of which had been underwashed by the waves so that the trunk inclined far over its base.

    1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC

Origin

From under- + wash.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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