Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Underground; subterranean.
- noun A cave or room under ground.
- noun In geology, a terrane beneath an overlying terrane.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A cave or room under ground.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cave orunderground room .
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Examples
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I watched men in moon suits bury drums of nuclear waste and I thought of the living rocks down there, the subterrane process, the half-life, the atoms that decay to half the original number.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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I watched men in moon suits bury drums of nuclear waste and I thought of the living rocks down there, the subterrane process, the half-life, the atoms that decay to half the original number.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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I watched men in moon suits bury drums of nuclear waste and I thought of the living rocks down there, the subterrane process, the half-life, the atoms that decay to half the original number.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Newer: keep trying - I wrote subterrane, for sure. if only subterrane, for sure. if only for lorem ipsum.
subterrane, for sure. if only - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson 2001
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Previously Noted subterrane.com rupaul : weblog r e e n h e a d . c o m
highindustrial. 2001
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If subterrane an granaries, or others, there fore, can be contrived below that temperature, the evil will be cured by cold.
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When the subterrane was thus cleared of the living, and the dead alone remained in that place which had so long been their home, and was now their tomb, Demetrius ordered his forces to disperse and return to their quarters in Florence in the same prudent manner which had characterized their egress thence a few hours before.
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Those who were in the treasure-chamber felt the ground shake beneath their feet; the sides -- although hollowed from the solid rock -- appeared to vibrate and groan, and the aperture leading into the subterrane of the convent was closed up by the massive masonry that had fallen in.
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"And by what means can access be obtained to this subterrane?" demanded the marquis.
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Giulia, whom he left in the treasure chamber (as that apartment of the robbers 'hold was called), and then hastened after those who had penetrated into the subterrane of the convent.
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