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underdone

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un·der·done  (ndr-dn)
v.
Past participle of underdo.
adj.
Not sufficiently cooked: an underdone turkey.
underdone [ˌʌndəˈdʌn]
adj
(Cookery) insufficiently or lightly cooked
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.underdone - insufficiently cookedunderdone - insufficiently cooked                
half-baked
raw - not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
Translations
underdone [ˈʌndəˈdʌn] ADJ [food] → a medio cocer; (deliberately) [steak] → poco hecho
underdone [ˌʌndərˈdʌn] adj [food] → pas assez cuit(e)
slightly underdone → pas tout à fait assez cuit(e)
underdone [ˌʌndəˈdʌn] adj (Culin) (food) → poco cotto/a; (steak) → al sangue
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Somewhere about the room you come across a bilious-looking object, which at first you take to be a lump of dough left about by one of the children, but which on scrutiny seems to resemble an underdone cupid.
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And then Lord Greystoke wiped his greasy fingers upon his naked thighs and took up the trail of Kulonga, the son of Mbonga, the king; while in far-off London another Lord Greystoke, the younger brother of the real Lord Greystoke's father, sent back his chops to the club's CHEF because they were underdone, and when he had finished his repast he dipped his finger-ends into a silver bowl of scented water and dried them upon a piece of snowy damask.
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And I recollect once, at a stage-coach dinner, overhearing a very stern gentleman demand of a waiter who presented him with a plate of underdone roast-beef, 'whether he called THAT, fixing God A'mighty's vittles?
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