Meaning of underwork | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.
   transitive
2. To work or operate in secret or clandestinely.
   intransitive, obsolete
3. To do less work than necessary (on).
   ambitransitive
4. To do work for inadequate payment.
   intransitive
5. To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
   transitive
6. To do similar work for a lesser price than; to undercut.
   transitive

Examples

“[H]e raiſeth (in priuate) a nevv Inſtrument, one Sertorius Macro, and by him vndervvorketh, diſcouers the others Coũſells [i.e., counsels], his Means, his Ends, […]”

“to underwork a painting”

“But thou from loving England art so far, That thou hast underwrought his lawful king.”

“One mason may underwork another.”

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