UNDERACHIEVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they underachieve ... he / she / it underachieves

Past simple: underachieved

Past participle: underachieved

-ing form: underachieving

Meaning:

Perform less well or with less success than expected

Example:

My stocks underperformed last year

Synonyms:

underachieve; underperform

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "underachieve" is one way to...):

do; perform (get (something) done)

Sentence frames:

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Somebody ----s

Derivation:

underachievement (poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been predicted from intelligence tests))

underachiever (a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates)