Definitions
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- verb transitive To
heat insufficiently .
Etymologies
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under- + heat
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Examples
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If you have an electric oven, sometimes just before the elements fail they go haywire and get strange and overheat one time and underheat the next.
The Fresh Loaf Patf 2010
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If you underheat the adhesive, it won’t stick, but you can just reheat it.
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Any woman who didn’t want a child in a society that banned abortion could just “accidentally” break, lose, or underheat the egg, and there’s no way law enforcement would waste time with the millions of such cases that would result
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