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underground

/ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/ verb C2
  1. To route electricity distribution cables underground.

He/she/it undergrounds · Past undergrounded · Past participle undergrounded · -ing form undergrounding

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Verb forms

Base form
underground
He/she/it
undergrounds
Past
undergrounded
Past participle
undergrounded
-ing form
undergrounding

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And hid a soldier underground.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 22 · C1
The domed roof had half fallen in and blocked up the underground passage from the palace by which the queens used to enter.
The Jungle Book, p. 51 · B2
For Nagaina will surely kill him underground.”
The Jungle Book, p. 83 · B2
An hour later Holmes, Lestrade and I stood upon the Underground railroad at the point where it emerges from the tunnel immediately before Aldgate Station.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 13 · B2

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