Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To color less deeply than usual.

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Examples

  • The girl's face was flushed with that deep and splendid understain.

    Jason Justus Miles Forman 1895

  • Bush wants to leave his mark, but he seems to not understain that what he's already left

    Bring It On! 2008

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