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  • adjective Situated or occurring below the surface of the ground.

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  • adjective beneath the surface of the ground; underground

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  • adjective under the level of the ground
  • adjective underneath the ground

Etymologies

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below +‎ ground

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • No windows anywhere, being that I was belowground.

    Ominous Kate Brian 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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