Sekirov Dictionary

undertranslate

verb1

•
To translate (language) in insufficient detail, or failing to translate certain elements.
- Secondly, there is a tendency to undertranslate, viz. to normalise by generalising, to understate, in all translation but particularly in literary translation. — 1991

forms

undertranslated · undertranslating · undertranslates

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