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UNDERDEVELOP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature
Example:
These photos are underdeveloped
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "underdevelop" is one way to...):
develop (make visible by means of chemical solutions)
Domain category:
photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)
photography (the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
underdevelopment ((photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast)
