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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
underwater .
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Examples
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On April 24th we went to City Farmers Nursery and I came home with big bags of potting soil, containers, seeds, a small trowel, and a moisture meter, something that is a necessity for me because in the past I had always either underwatered or overwatered potted plants (usually flowers that somebody had given me), and they'd died.
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I'd expose her to literature, classical music and ballet, and she'd soak it all in like an underwatered houseplant.
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Your citrus needs about as much water as a young redwood, but the redwood will need more as it grows bigger, and an underwatered redwood tree will not grow tall and lush.
SFGate: Top News Stories Pam Peirce 2010
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