Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To grow below the usual size or height: chiefly in the participial adjective undergrown.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To grow to an inferior, or less than the usual, size or height.
  • adjective obsolete Undergrown.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb grow below something

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Examples

  • And as we looked at it, we expect that it will probably continue to undergrow market for the first year, by the second year probably approaching the market growth rate and then by the third year exceeding market growth similar to the expectations we had with our other Analog businesses.

    unknown title 2012

  • We like the acquisition, but this does not change our view that Applied's silicon business will undergrow WFE (wafer fab equipment) in the coming cycle.

    unknown title 2009

  • We like the acquisition, but this does not change our view that Applied's silicon business will undergrow WFE (wafer fab equipment) in the coming cycle.

    unknown title 2009

  • We like the acquisition, but this does not change our view that Applied's silicon business will undergrow WFE (wafer fab equipment) in the coming cycle.

    unknown title 2009

  • We like the acquisition, but this does not change our view that Applied's silicon business will undergrow WFE (wafer fab equipment) in the coming cycle.

    unknown title 2009

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