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  • verb Present participle of underdo.

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Examples

  • Certainly if there were any fault in Mr Codlin's usual deportment, it was that he rather underdid his kindness to those about him, than overdid it.

    The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841

  • Certainly if there were any fault in Mr. Codlin's usual deportment, it was that he rather underdid his kindness to those about him, than overdid it.

    Old Curiosity Shop 1800

  • Certainly if there were any fault in Mr Codlin’s usual deportment, it was that he rather underdid his kindness to those about him, than overdid it.

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

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