underdeliver

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To deliver less, or at an inferior level, than promised or expected
    — […] the result was a warning to all exhibition organisers about the dangers of overpromising and underdelivering when promoting events.

词形变化

underdelivers present,singular,third-person underdelivering participle,present underdelivered participle,past underdelivered past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English deliver
English underdeliver
From under- + deliver.
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