underrun

1. 1.

   run or pass below

   Broaderrun
2. 2.

   haul onto a boat

   “underrun the cable for repair”

   Broaderhaul

Other forms of underrun

past tense

underrunned·

present participle

underrunning·

third person

underruns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about underrun

What does underrun mean?

underrun means "run or pass below". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in underrun?

underrun has 3 syllables: un-der-run. The stress falls on "un".

Is underrun a common word?

underrun is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.