underfire (English, verb)
expansion: underfire (third-person singular simple present underfires, present participle underfiring, simple past and past participle underfired)
Senses:
glosses: To heat from below.
tags: intransitive
transitive
glosses: To intentionally operate a boiler, furnace, oven, etc., at a low level.
tags: transitive
glosses: To burn fuel at less than the desired level, thus not providing heat efficiently.
tags: intransitive
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To fire at a low (or excessively low) temperature.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: underfires
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: underfiring
tags: participle
present
form: underfired
tags: participle
past
form: underfired
tags: past