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English
Etymology
From under- + stage.
Pronunciation
Adjective
understage (not comparable)
- (of machinery etc) underneath the stage
Noun
understage (plural understages)
- (theater) The area beneath a stage.
1900, William Paul Gerhard, Theatres: Their Safety from Fire and Panic, Their Comfort and Healthfulness, page 97:When deep pits, required in the understage for the machinery and traps, cannot be drained on account of insufficient depth of the street sewer
1996, James M. Saslow, The Medici wedding of 1589: Florentine festival as Theatrum Mundi, page 86:The understage being only 9 feet (5 braccia) high, the mountain had to rise in telescoping stages
2001, Augusto Boal with Adrian Jackson and Candida Blaker, Hamlet and the baker's son: my life in theatre and politics:dozens of strapping stage-hands in the understage manipulating warships, cannons dispatching balls of fire, blue smoke.
Verb
understage (third-person singular simple present understages, present participle understaging, simple past and past participle understaged)
- (medicine) To underestimate the severity of a patient's illness