Understage

adj, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The area beneath a stage.

    "When deep pits, required in the understage for the machinery and traps, cannot be drained on account of insufficient depth of the street sewer"

Verb
  1. 1
    To underestimate the severity of a patient's illness
Adjective
  1. 1
    underneath the stage not-comparable

Example

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"When deep pits, required in the understage for the machinery and traps, cannot be drained on account of insufficient depth of the street sewer"

Etymology

From under- + stage.

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