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Under   /ˈəndər/   Listen
Under

adverb
1.
Down to defeat, death, or ruin.
2.
Through a range downward.
3.
Into unconsciousness.
4.
In or into a state of subordination or subjugation.
5.
Below some quantity or limit.
6.
Below the horizon.
7.
Down below.
8.
Further down.  Synonym: below.
adjective
1.
Located below or beneath something else.  Synonym: nether.  "The under parts of a machine"
2.
Lower in rank, power, or authority.



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"Under" Quotes from Famous Books



... slowly returned under the influence of his father's tender solicitude, even though he remained dimly conscious of the rift widening little by little between his parents' settled convictions and his own groping thought. With the assuaging ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... and reigns among many men and mighty, maintaining right, and the black earth bears wheat and barley, and the trees are laden with fruit, and the sheep bring forth and fail not, and the sea gives store of fish, and all out of his good guidance, and the people prosper under him. Wherefore do thou ask me now in thy house all else that thou wilt, but inquire not concerning my race and mine own country, lest as I think thereupon thou fill my heart the more with pains, for I am a man of many sorrows. Moreover it beseems me not to sit weeping and wailing in another's ...
— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.
... off with the damaged slaver settin' beside him and the saddle hoss hitched to the rear axle. I see my chance an' before that prayer ended I had got the fugitives under some hay in my wagon and started off with them on my way to Livingston County. I could hear the prayin' until I got over the hill into Canaan barrens. At sundown I left them in good hands thirty ...
— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller
... whole life of the village lies before him. The school is generally in the centre, with a good playground, and of late years a good school garden is frequent. The village church, generally old, is another centre of life, and there is at least the vicarage to give a type of life under different social conditions. ...
— The Child Under Eight • E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith
... complexion, without the least sign of a beard, with regular features, perhaps a little too serious and fixed for his age, which, aided by his hair of pale blond colour, curled in little ringlets like a powdered wig, gave him the appearance of a young deputy of the Commons under Louis XVI, the head of a Barnave at twenty! This face, although the Nabob beheld it for the first time, was not ...
— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet


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