undersee

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To see or look under or below; see below the surface of. transitive
    — Newfoundland guides, trying to point out to a fisherman a salmon in the water, may say: "You have to undersee the shine." Ken has a remarkable ability to "undersee the shine." He is not deceived by surfaces.
  2. To look intently into; examine; inspect. transitive
    — At these less visible but still crucial levels, a substantial military presence would appear to have strengthened the capacity of the government to implement policy, by toughening the chain of command and by enabling officers to play watchdog roles "underseeing" civilian ministers.
  3. To neglect; fail to see properly or adequately; turn a blind eye to; ignore. rare,transitive
    — But he didn't read books; he only oversaw, or undersaw, the niggling details of their mass production.
  4. To supervise from below. humorous,nonce-word,transitive
    — Damien took an alternate route to oversee (or, more accurately, undersee) the execution of his dirty work.

词形变化

undersees present,singular,third-person underseeing participle,present undersaw past underseen participle,past

词汇关系

相关词
oversee

词源

From under- + see. Cognate with Dutch onderzien (“to see below”), German untersehen (“to see below”).
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