Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

underburdened

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-der-bur-dened
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of underburden

adj

Not having sufficient work.

adj

Having too powerful an explosive for the amount of rock broken up, resulting in a risk of igniting dust and gasses.

Example Sentences

"Tasks may be taken from the overburdened and given to the underburdened; certain tasks may be shared; some additional (new) tasks may be assigned the underburdened; perhaps employees who are overburdened can have some of their tasks simplified, combined with others, or outright eliminated."
"Probably one or more of the holes was underburdened, causing an ignition of methane and coal dust."
"Detonation of underburdened or overburdened explosive charges is extremely dangerous."
"A blown-out shot of explosives that was stemmed with coal dust, or an underburdened shot of explosives could have ignited the coal dust."

Inflected Forms

more underburdened (comparative) most underburdened (superlative)

Questions

What does underburdened mean?: simple past and past participle of underburden

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