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  1. adjective Situated, occurring, or operating below the surface of the earth: underground caverns; underground missile sites.
  2. adjective Hidden or concealed; clandestine: underground resistance to the tyrant.
  3. adjective Of or relating to an organization involved in secret or illegal activity: underground trade in weapons.
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  • Iroquois messengers, hired for the purpose, carried wampum belts "underground"--that is, secretly--to such of the interior tribes as were disposed to listen with favor to the words of Corlaer, as they called the governor of New York In spite of their shortcomings, the English had one powerful attraction for all the tribes alike. —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
  • There was the beginning of a series of monstrous craters where men had begun rebuilding underground, the ruined landing field, and a section of what had been the great business district. —  Victory
  • Sleepers woke from underground, as Mother Carey's silent trumpeters went bugling ahead of her, and her winged horse, the Warm Wind, came sweeping across the meadows, with the white world greening as he came The bundle-baby of the Horn-devil woke up. —  Woodland Tales
  • On the pampa such incidents are far from rare; for the burrows of the biscachas are carried like galleries underground, and therefore dangerous to any heavy quadruped so unfortunate as to sink through the surface turf. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
  • I am convinced that he is a kind of human mole who works underground, and makes mischief in secret ways. —  The Bishop's Secret
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