Undersee

Quick meaning: Undersee is a verb meaning (transitive) To see or look under or below; see below the surface of.

Meaning

(transitive) To see or look under or below; see below the surface of.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To look intently into; examine; inspect.
2. (transitive) To neglect; fail to see properly or adequately; turn a blind eye to; ignore.

Example Sentences

But he didn't read books; he only oversaw, or undersaw, the niggling details of their mass production.

Damien took an alternate route to oversee (or, more accurately, undersee) the execution of his dirty work.

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.

Perhaps I was too fond of him at one time—perhaps too fond still—to be entirely fair to his work—Perhaps “oversaw” it formerly—when he potentially lived in me—& “undersee” it now when I am impatient with all tricks [...]

Word Forms

• undersees
• underseeing
• undersaw
• underseen

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