intransitive verb or transitive verbWord forms: -did, -done, -doing
to do less or in a lesser fashion than is usual or requisite
Word origin
[1605–15; under- + do1]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: crater, inverse, package, pivot, series
Examples of 'underdo' in a sentence
underdo
It's better to underdo the quantity than overdo it.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
I wince at the wall of heat, blacken the steak, underdo the peaches and drop carrots through the grill.