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Undertook vs Underlook - What's the difference?

undertook | underlook |

As verbs the difference between undertook and underlook

is that undertook is simple past of undertake while underlook is to be suspicious or mistrustful of.

As a noun underlook is

a suspicious or critical look; scowl, leer.

undertook

English

Verb

(head)
  • (undertake)

    • undertake

    English

    Verb

  • (label) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:To second, or oppose, or undertake / The perilous attempt.
  • (label) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
  • (label) To overtake on the wrong side.
  • :
  • To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.
  • *, Bk.VII:
  • *:"I have now aspyed one knyght," he seyde, "that woll play hys play at the justys, I undirtake ."
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:And those two counties I will undertake / Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:And he was not right fat, I undertake .
  • * (1665-1728)
  • *:I dare undertake they will not lose their labour.
  • To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.
  • *:
  • *:there came fourty knyghtes to sire Darras // So sire Tristram endured there grete payne / for sekenesse had vndertake hym / and that is the grettest payne a prysoner maye haue
  • (label) To assume, as a character; to take on.
  • :(Shakespeare)
  • (label) To engage with; to attack.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to.
  • (label) To have knowledge of; to hear.
  • :(Spenser)
  • (label) To have or take charge of.
  • *(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
  • *:Keep well those that ye undertake .
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:who undertakes you to your end

    • Usage notes

    * Sense: To commit oneself. This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. * See

    Derived terms

    * undertaker * undertaking

    underlook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a suspicious or critical look; scowl, leer
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1973 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Jack Kerouac , title=Visions of Cody , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher=New Directions , isbn=0140179070 , page= , passage= … rubbing his hands busily, rocking back and forth with one foot in front of the other, his head down but watching Watson with an underlook that was very arrogant, cocky, ... }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to be suspicious or mistrustful of
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1906 , year_published=2007' , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=Elmer W. Cavins , title=Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=_Suspect._ To _underlook _; to imagine or infer that appearances misrepresent; hence one who _suspects_ is inclined to _look beneath_ the surface. }}
  • to look under something
  • To miss because one is looking too low.
  • to look intently at or into, scrutinize, inspect
  • To not give due worth or respect to.

    • Antonyms

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