underearth

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ earth.

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Adjective

underearth (not comparable)

  1. Beneath the earth; underground.
    • 1954, Keats-Shelley Journal, volumes 3-4, page 8:
      The sleep-healing takes place, shortly before the end of the poem, in the "Cave of Quietude," an underearth cavern that is environed by "hell."
    • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 89:
      The dragon from under-earth,
      the nightmarish destroyer, lay destroyed as well,
      utterly without life.

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