Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past participle of underdo.
- adj. Not sufficiently cooked: an underdone turkey.
Wiktionary
- adj. insufficiently cooked; undercooked
WordNet 3.0
- adj. insufficiently cooked
Etymologies
- under- + done (Wiktionary)
Examples
“My main thrust was to aver the Nordin article was "underdone" and as a community service would have been much more effective if the bank involvement had been much more deeply explored; and if, as you and Waldo seemd to think, "Anyone in the world can tap one ` s bank account with only the account number" that fact, if indeed it is one, needs exploration.”
“Deprived of the country's finest youth, his side has also not been able to travel to any warm-up tournaments, which he believes leaves them 'underdone' in comparison with other leading teams.”
“The Wallabies lack match practice and will be "underdone" for their final Bledisloe Cup match against New Zealand in Hong Kong next week, coach Robbie Deans warned on Friday.”
“The Umbrian version cooks to a perfect al dente that most fresh pasta cannot achieve, but doesn't have a standard dried pasta's noodle-soup surface over an underdone center.”
“You can make the cutest couple in the world, but if you look frumpy or overdone or even excessively underdone, it won't be worth anything.”
The Huffington Post: Emily de La Bruyere: Prom: A User's Guide
“He left with few regrets, happy that his game on clay had never been better, although disappointed that, yet again, his best was not good enough to beat a slightly underdone Nadal.”
The Guardian: Rafael Nadal boxed clever to beat Roger Federer in French Open | Kevin Mitchell
“I don't think they've been underdone myself - at least for our area this year.”
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“I'm not sure what his basis is for stating the U.S. models are underdone "again".”
The Washington Post: Live blogging the models for Tues. snow event
“It wasn't until Judges' Table that I realized how underdone the pork was.”
“You complain about the unfinished and underdone story of the chicken, but don't you realize that one comes across so many chickens during the course of one's life?”
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