verb
- learning or preparing to perform someone else’s role in a play or performance as a substitute
Usage: theater
Examples
- She is understudying the lead actress in the Broadway musical.
- The young actor spent months understudying the veteran performer.
- He was understudying three different roles in the production.
- After understudying for two years, she finally got her chance to perform.
- The director asked her to start understudying the main character immediately.
- Understudying requires learning all the lines and blocking perfectly.