Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Situated or occurring below the surface of the ground.
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- adjective
beneath the surface of theground ;underground
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- adjective under the level of the ground
- adjective underneath the ground
Etymologies
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Examples
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Buried by both history and the foundations of the present-day metropolis, much of the belowground, stone-lined tunnel system had been converted long ago into sewage conduits.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Buried by both history and the foundations of the present-day metropolis, much of the belowground, stone-lined tunnel system had been converted long ago into sewage conduits.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Buried by both history and the foundations of the present-day metropolis, much of the belowground, stone-lined tunnel system had been converted long ago into sewage conduits.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Buried by both history and the foundations of the present-day metropolis, much of the belowground, stone-lined tunnel system had been converted long ago into sewage conduits.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Buried by both history and the foundations of the present-day metropolis, much of the belowground, stone-lined tunnel system had been converted long ago into sewage conduits.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Buried by both history and the foundations of the present-day metropolis, much of the belowground, stone-lined tunnel system had been converted long ago into sewage conduits.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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No windows anywhere, being that I was belowground.
Ominous Kate Brian 2011
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As for force fields, we can also set up a grid that would throw a blanket over the entire building above- and belowground.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011
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Buried by both history and the foundations of the present-day metropolis, much of the belowground, stone-lined tunnel system had been converted long ago into sewage conduits.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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The following transcript was taken from security footage recorded at the Lake Novus Research Laboratories located belowground in northwest Washington State.
'Robopocalypse' 2011
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