underachieve
IPA: ˈʌndɝʌtʃiv
verb
- To achieve less than expected; to fail to fulfil one's potential.
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Examples of "underachieve" in Sentences
- Dicdef written by an underachiever.
- Underachiever but I don't believe it.
- I'm a highly intelligent underachiever with debt.
- I believe, you are at school not an underachiever.
- Of particular interest is academic underachievement.
- A second season of underachievement never eventuated.
- No that school cannot be blamed for my underachievement.
- It's a serious underachievement as far as vandalism goes.
- If underachievement is a problem, there is no just solution.
- Maladjusted people are those who underachieve but do not have a disability.
- Mr. Obama may be counting on Republicans not to underachieve but to overreach.
- Black children underachieve, she said, "because of what the well-meaning liberal does to him".
- Or maybe they will continue to underachieve, because there are some deep-seated problems in San Francisco.
- Even today, the economy looks like it will underachieve -- not unexpectedly following such a serious financial crisis.
- "The greatest risk to the world economy today is that the largest economies underachieve on growth," Geithner told the gathering.
- Next they underachieve at GCSE, failing to go in such large numbers to university; when they do, they are less likely to gain a 2: 1 or a first.
- Until the Sharks stop concentrating on having great regular seasons and instead build their team for the playoff grind, they will continue to underachieve.
- "Most of us still have the capacity to take additional actions that would improve both short-run and long-run growth prospects," and the biggest risk to the global recovery is that advanced nations underachieve on growth, Mr. Geithner said.
- But in tomorrow's report, the story of ethnicity is a complicated one – in which poor black boys underachieve, as do those from Irish Traveller families, but poor Chinese girls overachieve; Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities see different outcomes to Indian ones; and there is a growing group of mixed race children who in themselves have complex outcomes.
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