underreplace

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English

Etymology

From under- +‎ replace.

Pronunciation

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Verb

underreplace (third-person singular simple present underreplaces, present participle underreplacing, simple past and past participle underreplaced)

  1. To replace insufficiently
    • 1975, CICRED, Seminar on Infant Mortality in Relation to the Level of Fertility, 6-12 May 1975, Bangkok, Thailand, page 240:
      Therefore, even women with the highest increases due to child mortality severely underreplace their lost children.
    • 2007, Suzanne M. Breckenridge, Benjamin A. Cooperberg, Ana Maria Arbelaez, Bruce W. Patterson, Philip E. Cryer, “Glucagon, in Concert With Insulin, Supports the Postabsorptive Plasma Glucose Concentration in Humans”, in Diabetes, volume 56, number 10, American Diabetes Association, page Abstract:
      Since that dose almost assuredly does not cause supraphysiological hepatic portal venous glucagon concentrations, it was used to intentionally underreplace glucagon during octreotide infusion in the current study.