Meaning

(transitive) To cover or line the underside of (a floor or roof) with plasterwork, boarding or other such treatment..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To cover or line the underside of (a floor or roof) with plasterwork, boarding or other such treatment.
2. To take or draw less than one needs or is entitled to.
3. (transitive) To represent inadequately in an artistic depiction, or in words.
4. To sketch a work of art in chalk, pencil, or other temporary medium prior to painting, inking, or otherwise making the final work.

Example Sentences

The [roof] had never been underdrawn, its entire anatomy lay bare to an inquiring eye, except where a frame of wood laden with oatcakes, and clusters of legs of beef, mutton and ham, concealed it.

He has the whole of the room underdrawn, with the exception of two bays at one end; he admits plenty of air by the windows in the roof into the triangular shaped space formed by the roof and the underdrawing;

You say for month and months you had been underdrawing? — Always underdrawing and giving up every month. Whatever we drew the officer signed an indent for and we gave up a surplus.

Here was the warrant (or at least a justification) not just for Steig's drawings of people as bodily symptoms but, more important, for his abandoning underdrawing in pencil prepartory to inking in a drawing.

Word Forms

• underdraws
• underdrawing
• underdrew
• underdrawn

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When Should You Use Underdraw?

Use underdraw when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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