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title: "How to pronounce \"underactivate\" in English | SayItVid"
description: "Learn how to say \"underactivate\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid."
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# How to pronounce "underactivate" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ʌndɛræktæɪvɪt/`
- **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-underactivate.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-underactivate.wav.mp3)
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **un·de·rac·ti·vate**
- **Parts of Speech**: verb
- **VERB**: To produce insufficient levels of activation.
  - *Example*: "Wood and Flowers (1999) demonstrated with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) that the same brain regions that underactivate in dyslexia also underactivate in the inattentive subtype of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder."

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (1 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "underactivate" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "cortisol coursing through our body and our we are literally flooded. our amygdala or the emotional center of our of our brain is overactivated while the preffrontal cortex the very logical grounding part of our brain becomes underactivated. So in that flooded moment in a very real sense we become that reaction and that's really important to understand because so many of us right we can shame that reaction or have been shamed when someone tells us just to calm down if our reaction doesn't match the moment but in our own bodies it does feel as big as it is that we're experiencing"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 27:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_ILxxufp78&t=1660s)


## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "underactivate" correctly?
"underactivate" is pronounced `/ʌndɛræktæɪvɪt/`. Syllable breakdown: **un·de·rac·ti·vate**.

### What does "underactivate" mean in context?
To produce insufficient levels of activation.

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