underexpress
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underexpress (third-person singular simple present underexpresses, present participle underexpressing, simple past and past participle underexpressed)
- To express less than normally.
- Antonym: overexpress
- 1999, Anthony Falikowski, Mastering Human Relations, page 414:
- In each of the triads, one type overexpresses the characteristic faculty of the triad, another underexpresses it and the third is most out of touch with it.