underpowered
English
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Verb
underpowered
- simple past and past participle of underpower
Adjective
underpowered (comparative more underpowered, superlative most underpowered)
- Having insufficient power for its operation.
- 1925, Stewart Edward White, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 2,[1]
- […] occasionally a flap-skitter duck, making up his mind to go a-visiting, gave himself over to the serious business of flight. Flap-flap-flap, skitter, skitter, skitter, went he, taxi-ing along like an underpowered airplane, leaving behind him incredible churnings of wake.
- 1945, Neville Shute, New York: William Morrow & Co., Chapter 4, p. 111,[2]
- The old under-powered van ground its way very noisily and rather slowly up the long steep hill out of the town.
- 1925, Stewart Edward White, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 2,[1]
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