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underground::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover |
underground resistance.
underground::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | metro, subway, subway system, tube |
| Type of | railroad, railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system |
in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'.
underground::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | resistance |
| Type of | revolutionary group |
| Has types | maquis |
Examples of underground
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Long-term, though, it will take more to legitimize Europe's underground economy.
From the businessweek.com
Underground miners across the world understand one another like no one else can.
From the kentucky.com
They were named the catacombs in a nod to ancient Rome's underground cemeteries.
From the online.wsj.com
Until the day of his arrest, he had been in the underground Solidarity movement.
From the abcnews.go.com
With an audience of six or seven thousand it was central to the 60s underground.
From the guardian.co.uk
He can be found living in underground nests in the crater of an extinct volcano.
From the independent.co.uk
Chuquicamata, an open-pit mine in the north, must go underground to stay viable.
From the economist.com
The 29 miners at the Pike Creek mine had been trapped underground for five days.
From the dailymercury.com.au
At the bottom, the river heads underground for a kilometre through the mountain.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
- Belowground: under the level of the ground; "belowground storage areas"; "underground caverns"
- In or into hiding or secret operation; "the organization was driven underground"
- Beneath the surface of the earth; "water flowing underground"
- Clandestine: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an ...
- Metro: an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city); "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'"
- Underground is a 1928 British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen and Norah Baring. An electrician and a railway porter both fall in love with a shop girl they meet on the London Underground.
- Underground is a 1941 film about the German Resistance opposing the Nazis in World War II. Jeffrey Lynn and Philip Dorn play two brothers initially on opposite sides.
- Underground is a 1976 documentary film about the Weathermen, founded as a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), who fought to overthrow the U.S. government during the 1960s and 1970s. The film consists of interviews with members of the group after they went underground and footage of the anti-war and civil rights protests of the time...
