underachieve in English

verb
1
do less well than is expected, especially in schoolwork.
It is hard to believe he was a child who consistently underachieved at school, whose reports said ‘nice and friendly’ but never mentioned any outstanding mental ability.
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1. Countries as huge and complicated as China can underachieve or collapse under their own contradictions.

2. Second, it is not true that girls underachieve across the board in education.

3. Discover how their current patient education materials and processes may underachieve and test improvements.

4. I know sometimes it's frustrating to watch them underachieve , but what right have we to blame them?

5. Children of the poor underachieve in later life, and thus remain poor themselves, is one of the enduring problems of society.

6. They consistently underachieve at school and demonstrate little desire to make headway along a career avenue to success.

7. Boys may underachieve because they pick up on teachers' assumptions that they will obtain lower results than girls and have less drive.

8. "The greatest risk to the world economy today is that the largest economies underachieve on growth," Geithner said October 6 at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

9. THAT the children of the poor underachieve in later life, and thus remain poor themselves, is one of the enduring problems of society.