Underscoring

noun, verb

noun, verb ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An underline.

    "Parkington swung his chair away, keeping the book in his hand and his back to Anthony. “He underscored whole passages,” he said. “I can't abide reading a book with underscorings in it.”"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of underscore form-of, gerund, participle, present

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bandbarcross hatchingdashdelineationdiagonal

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"Underscoring his incompetency, the president misspelled "education" in his executive order."

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