underrank
English
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[edit]underrank (third-person singular simple present underranks, present participle underranking, simple past and past participle underranked)
- (transitive) To rank lower than.
- In the military, a private underranks a colonel.
- (transitive) To ascribe too low a rank to.
- Embarrassingly, I underranked the colonel by addressing him as "private".