单词 | underground |
释义 | un·der·ground ![]() adj. 1. Situated, occurring, or operating below the surface of the earth: underground caverns; underground missile sites. 2. a. Hidden or concealed; clandestine: underground resistance to the tyrant. b. Of or relating to an organization involved in secret or illegal activity: underground trade in weapons. 3. Of or relating to an avant-garde movement or its films, publications, and art, usually privately produced and of special appeal and often concerned with social or artistic experiment. n. 1. A clandestine, often nationalist, organization fostering or planning hostile activities against, or the overthrow of, a government in power, such as an occupying military government: "an underground of dissident intellectuals" (Kenneth L. Woodward). 2. Chiefly British A subway system. 3. An avant-garde movement or publication. adv. (ŭn′dər-ground) 1. Below the surface of the earth. 2. In secret; stealthily. tr.v. un·der·ground·ed, un·der·ground·ing, un·der·grounds To situate under the ground: workers undergrounding telephone lines. |
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