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- verb To give
insufficient , or insufficientlyprecise ,information : tospecify incompletely .
Etymologies
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under- + specify.
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Examples
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One of the things that both Lakoff and Faulconnier seem to say is that utterances, words, sentences etc massively underspecify the thoughts that they are expressions of.
The Grand Theory of All Thought: Blending Chris 2004
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