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    subterranean


    1. While there are over several hundred varieties of termites in the world, only four live in the United States, subterranean, dry wood, damp wood and powder-post


    2. The subterranean being the one that causes 95% of the damage


    3. Subterranean require contact with a moist soil


    4. Dry-wood termites do not require the moisture that subterranean do


    5. The brief glimpses of my new home in this subterranean world that I had stored away as I watched and listened through the sacking started to coalesce and form a broader landscape


    6. I could feel no wind on my face as I stood on this subterranean seashore


    7. Lucy’s nostrils filled with the inevitable familiarity of the damp earth musk of the subterranean, of watered down piss pools, and the reek of old, decaying tobacco


    8. The entry chamber was but one of the subterranean marvels


    9. ‘Welcome to our subterranean nerve-centre,’ Alistair remarked casually with a long sweep of his arm


    10. After all, he appeared in her bedroom, in the subterranean compound, she couldn’t believe he was really there; no alarms had been set off

    11. The fact that it is described as the “great deep” implicates that it had to contain a large body of water, which may have been locked up in subterranean chambers deep under the Earth’s crust or even inside the earth’s mantle


    12. Interestingly enough, the garment which is referred to in two passages above, firstly points to the water covering the entire Earth as a garment and secondly it describes the subterranean waters being covered by a “garment” before the Flood


    13. We can also point to the remnants of this subterranean water body, when we consider water that is still being pushed to the surface of the Earth today from deep inside the Earth via underwater vents, fissures and hot springs found all over the Earth, under the pressure of rock masses bearing down on these subterranean water bodies, even after the passage of 4,500 years after the Flood


    14. How was the water mist delivered to the surface of the Earth? Considering the fact that a constant flow of water was delivered to the entire surface area of the planet, in the form of a mist, the volume of subterranean water, which would have supplied this mist, would have diminished over the centuries


    15. These moving sections of crust would then pick up speed over a period of 40 days, drifting away from the crack’s origin, while still floating on the remaining subterranean water layer


    16. We know that while the subterranean water layer existed, the Earth’s magnetic field was strong enough to counteract the gravitational pull that was exerted on the water, suspended above the atmosphere


    17. This layer of water above the atmosphere ( under a gravitational pull that would now be stronger than the force exerted by the electro-magnetic field) would have rained down on the Earth adding to the subterranean water, which was released onto the surface, resulting in a massive deluge that would have covered the entire planet


    18. The subterranean complex had increased down in stepped levels and then extending horizontally at about five hundred metres a day


    19. Every broadcast media centre gave out a repeated warning to head for the nearest temporary shelter – which at least would protect from radiation, if not intense heat – until transport arrived to ferry the panic-stricken, the terrified, and the angry to their assigned subterranean compound


    20. He had previously seen this subterranean building, or one similar (he'd been unconscious before entering this one), but the sheer scale of it still took some comprehending

    21. The moon was officially unoccupied since the war; in actuality the Nine still had their subterranean base on the dark side; undoubtedly the Darangi were also present, which begged the question: why had they not prevented the creation of this time machine? The drones her allies used had scanners which penetrated the lunar rock; essentially there was nowhere to hide


    22. She knew her destination as just outside the subterranean city gates and kept this in mind as she tore time from the present and made the magical doorway


    23. Aran-dul was pleased at his success in taking over the vast subterranean city


    24. In the subterranean bowels of Fire Rock, five badgers held the future of Boddaert's Realm in their paws


    25. It was a fantasy, reliving a forgotten part of his youth in this subterranean world


    26. ‘Because of their inability to defend themselves, it is not surprising that some species of salamanders have completely adapted to subterranean caves that contain water


    27. began towards the subterranean levels


    28. the darkness, the subterranean cavern was again consumed by


    29. magnificent beaches of turquoise waters that overflow in bright and exciting subterranean life, and refold on the white sand of the shore under the intense reflected light of the warm Caribbean sun


    30. The subterranean of Aucrea Castle were made out of the rock itself

    31. I could swim out of that subterranean light


    32. My own comrades live in a subterranean tunnel which is safe from bombs and artillery


    33. The trickling of subterranean streams rushed through the air


    34. The fighters next turned their attention to Sordryx, who hovered over the center of the subterranean lake


    35. The subterranean passage widened


    36. But what I really wanted was reached via a long subterranean passageway beneath it – the sea, sunshine and a few holidaymakers scattered over the rocks from which you could dive into sparkling clear blue water


    37. The passages and tunnels of the subterranean fortress were twisting and circuitous


    38. “This place must have held a subterranean lake ages ago


    39. A tail away the river shot out the end of the tunnel into a gaping cavern and fell into a subterranean lake of molten lava, forming a waterfall that burned into steam before it ever reached the bottom


    40. A subterranean organism that spans the

    41. at the bottom of the picture, leads to a system of vast subterranean halls


    42. by constructing a concealed subterranean store-room - (the underground work being done at night, when Hu Lyang’s “HL Security Company” patrolled the premises) – which was hidden immediately beneath the “Ubisi” store-room and accessed via a cunningly-concealed trapdoor


    43. Yasala doubtless knew every turn and twist of the subterranean tunnels


    44. Only that thin string had kept him from racing and prancing off for ever into the black corridors and realms of the subterranean world he had discovered, long ago


    45. Most of the roof had fallen in, as well as a great section of the floor, which was laid over the vault of a subterranean river


    46. He wondered briefly for what purpose the ladders had been suspended from the ledges over the subterranean river, but dismissed the matter with a shrug


    47. And there were other figures, too—figures that moved through the deserted palace, did the bidding of the Pelishti, and dragged unnamable things out of the subterranean river


    48. This trail had led him away from the place where Muriela had disappeared, but a belief was growing in Conan that each part of the valley was connected with that palace by subterranean passages


    49. He ate the food the priests brought as an offering to Yelaya, and his servants ate other things—I've always known there was a subterranean river flowing away from the lake where the people of the Puntish highlands throw their dead


    50. His primitive imagination peopled the subterranean darkness with grisly shapes









































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    Synonyms for "subterranean"

    subterranean subterraneous ulterior below beneath deep

    "subterranean" definitions

    being or operating under the surface of the earth


    lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)