VERB | social | underachieve, underperform | perform less well or with less success than expected |
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Meaning | perform less well or with less success than expected. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
Example | "John consistently underachieves, although he is very able" | |
Synonym | underperform | |
Broader | do, perform | Get (something) done |
Nouns | underachievement | poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) |
underachiever | a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates |
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