underact

From under- + act.

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underact (third-person singular simple present underacts, present participle underacting, simple past and past participle underacted)

1. (intransitive) To act in an understated manner or with little expressiveness.

• overact

• reducant, tranduce, uncarted, uncrated, unredact, untraced