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Underwater   /ˈəndərwˌɔtər/   Listen
Underwater

adjective
1.
Beneath the surface of the water.  Synonyms: submerged, submersed.
2.
Growing or remaining under water.  Synonyms: subaquatic, subaqueous, submerged, submersed.  "Submerged leaves"



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... either ordered a machine in behalf of White or perhaps agreed to take one off his hands. At the time of this expansion, certain outbuildings and a dock for the unloading of coal were erected adjoining the lower building. During 1881 an underwater telegraph cable was laid between Morristown and Brockville, allowing immediate communication between the two ...
— History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills • Robert B. Shaw
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... two thousand miles by some underwater system, constructing the wall under water? If you had ever read of the difficulty of building one lighthouse foundation, my boy, you wouldn't talk so glibly about building huge retaining masses of masonry ...
— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
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... well give a tract to a shipwrecked sailor who is battling with the surf which has drowned his comrades and threatens to drown him. He will not listen to you. Nay, he cannot hear you any more than a man whose head is underwater can listen to a sermon. The first thing to do is to get him at least a footing on firm ground, and to give him room to live. Then you may have a chance. At present you have none. And you will have all the better opportunity to find a way to his heart, if he comes ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth
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... which was underwater at high tide, was a long stretch of sand that fringed the shingle. Two parties were formed, in which care was taken to make both sides as nearly equal as possible, after which the game began, with screams, with laughter, a little cheating and some disputes, ...
— Jacqueline, Complete • (Mme. Blanc) Th. Bentzon
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Words linked to "Underwater" :   subsurface, biological science, subaquatic, biology, aquatic, subaqueous


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