Underlive

Quick meaning: Underlive is a verb meaning (transitive) To live under; live beneath (something); to fail to live up to (something).

Meaning

(transitive) To live under; live beneath (something); to fail to live up to (something).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To fail to reach (a certain age).
2. (transitive) To live on fewer resources than (someone).
3. (intransitive) To live on insufficient resources.
4. (intransitive) To live in an overcautious or unfulfilling manner.

Example Sentences

The duration of a person’s life is a mystery, and thousands of cancer patients have outlived or underlived their estimated life expectancy.

We cannot afford to embark on a policy of paternalism in Latin America because of the damage it would do to us through underliving our basic ideals.

Many of that class who live in the country, and have farms, by their industry and frugal way of living, grow rich, for they can underlive the Britons, &c.

The Chinese go to stay. A few rebuffs do not dishearten them. Knowing their capacity to underlive and undersell their competitors, they are tenacious in the extreme.

Word Forms

• underlives
• underliving
• underlived

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