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third-person singular simple present underkeeps, present participle underkeeping, simple past and past participle underkept
(transitive) To keep under or in subjection; subdue; suppress. quotations examples
Like as a fire, the which in hollow caue / Hath long bene vnderkept, and downe supprest, / With murmurous disdaine doth inly raue […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
It is not economy to overwork or underkeep, or in any wise neglect the farm horse?
1865, The farmer's magazine, page 276
[...] how running himself our President underkeeps with such high animals how the british Queen in Her Majesty's own language.
1967, Rudolf Augstein, Der Spiegel: Volume 21, Issues 19-23
(transitive) To keep or maintain inadequately or below standard. quotations examples
Compared to Colva and Benaulim, Palolem 's accommodations are overpriced and underkept — expect to pay Rs200 in season for the privilege of crashing in a charmless double and using a common bathroom outside.
2004, Let's go: India & Nepal, 2004 - Page 191, Let's Go, Inc
Most houses on Oakland Ave. have large basements that are underkept.
2011, Marie Puissant, University of Wisconsin off the record
plural underkeeps
An underground reserve. quotations examples
The earth was swallowing Abascar. "The Underkeeps caved in."
2007, Jeffrey Overstreet, Auralia's Colors
A keep or storage space located beneath the foundation of a structure; cellar. quotations examples
[...] located in the bottom of the driving-box cellars (underkeeps), a perforated plate being used between the axle and the cake of grease.
1907, Léonard Archbutt, Richard Mountford Deeley, Lubrication and lubricants
Any storage space or reservoir placed below another object. quotations examples
They have sliding underkeeps of ample oil capacity with pad lubrication and the underkeeps are supplied with oil direct from a mechanical lubricator.
1951, Railway gazette international, volume 94
An underkeeper, guardian, or custodian. quotations examples
[...] rooms taken up by Mr. Newton one of his Mats Gent ushers for the placing of the Kings Mats wardrobe stuffe for the space of three weeks at Newmarkett To Robert Ford underkeep of his Mats House at Newmarkett in considracon of the want [...]
1886, John Philip Hore, The history of Newmarket