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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of underheat.

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Examples

  • I knew that interrogators regularly use underheated interview rooms.

    Edge Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • It's hard as hell to educate kids in leaky, dangerous, overcrowded, underheated, school buildings.

    Election Central Saturday Roundup 2009

  • It was no worse than many other such establishments: the food was bad, the building underheated, physical punishment the norm.

    Such, Such Was Eric Blair Barnes, Julian 2009

  • But if I shower, the water will be too hot on my overheated feverish body and too cold for my underheated feverish body.

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  • But if I shower, the water will be too hot on my overheated feverish body and too cold for my underheated feverish body.

    Chicken Soup - The Blogging Soul is Not Pretty 2007

  • The rains came, and if California in November was not as cold as China had been, nonetheless the air in an underheated apartment chilled the bones, especially bones that had been broken eighteen weeks before.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • The rains came, and if California in November was not as cold as China had been, nonetheless the air in an underheated apartment chilled the bones, especially bones that had been broken eighteen weeks before.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • He was opening the window, although his office was already underheated.

    Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999

  • Petrograd is still underfed, underheated, dirty and desolate, but it continues to live ....

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  • Steel heated to its correct temperatures will show the finest possible grain, whereas underheated steel has not had its grain structure refined sufficiently, and so will not be at its best.

    The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916

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