Meaning of underwarm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To warm insufficiently; To fail to provide with the expected or required amount of heat.
   transitive
2. To heat from below.
   transitive

Examples

“Near-synonym: underheat”

“Some workers, now underpaid, underfed, underwarmed, and badly clothed, would quickly respond to improved conditions and pay, and would in a short time become really more efficient.”

“All that need be done is to increase the purchasing power of the millions of impoverished, underfed, underclothed, underwarmed, and underhoused men, women, and children in our industrial centers and the demand will follow.”

“Underfed and underwarmed, he had a hard time of it, and one may guess that his resistance to disease in after-life was weakened by the almost Dotheboys Hall conditions, but those were days when almost all schools 'did the boys'.”

“but the results of slight underwarming were not immediately obvious.”

“Yet a substantial 'underwarming' still remains compared to model estimates […]”

“Using nasopharyngeal temperature to avoid hyperthermia and rectal/bladder temperature to avoid underwarming may be the safest technique.”

“And the remains of Joe's dinner—an underwarmed hamburger paired with shoestring fries—dotted the landscape in front of the stove, overturned in their too-brief struggle.”

“But I have been unable to recommend the appointment of the former on account of the rule introduced by the circular of the 14th of January 1854, —that no pupil-teacher should be allowed in schools where the floors were not either boarded or underwarmed.”

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