understater

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• understater — noun A person who understates …   Wiktionary

• New Zealand literature — Introduction       the body of literatures, both oral and written, produced in New Zealand. Maori narrative: the oral tradition       Like all Polynesian peoples, the Maori, who began to occupy the islands now called New Zealand about 1,000 years …   Universalium

• understate — verb describe or represent (something) as being smaller or less significant than it really is. Derivatives understatement noun understater noun …   English new terms dictionary

• understate — v.tr. 1 express in greatly or unduly restrained terms. 2 represent as being less than it actually is. Derivatives: understatement n. understater n …   Useful english dictionary