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underneath Preposition

— If mathx/math is underneath mathy/math, mathx/math is right under, below, or covered by mathy/math. The cat was hiding underneath the car. My bag was underneath my jacket.

underneath

— adverb under or below an object or a surface; at a lower place or level; directly beneath we could see the original painting underneath a house with a good foundation underneath — adverb on the lower or downward side; on the underside of a chest of drawers all scratched underneath

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underneath English » English

below under beneath down bottom underside downstairs near low underwear underpart underground undercover under-side under the feet secret rough draft proximity part beneath inside foundation end downwards downward covert clandestine buttocks bellow behind basis base alongside

Topics underneath topics

What do people use underneath to talk about?

States Location Here, there On

Under, below

What words indicate that something is under something that is directly above it?

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What words indicate that something is under a covering (such as clothes, skin, or paint)?

under underneath beneath

Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Lower something

What words refer to putting something under something?

put under put underneath

Examples underneath examples

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Simple sentences

I found a gift underneath my pillow.

I found the key underneath the mat.

The next morning I woke to see the fruit trees in bloom underneath my window.

Underneath we wrote the names of the students in our class.

Tom sat down underneath a tree.

There is a biscuit underneath the table.

When I lifted a potted plant in my garden, there were swarms of little insects crawling underneath, and I instinctively let out a shriek.

The gasoline tank was underneath.

We are all naked underneath our clothes.

There are lots of presents underneath the Christmas tree.

Tom crawled underneath the bed.

Tom looked underneath the table.

The mouse ran underneath the bed.

I found the keys underneath the mat.

It's boiling underneath his skin.

Tom had dirt underneath his fingernails.

Movie subtitles

And the murderers and the robbers, and the AIDS, and the snakes, and the safari ants, which can actually plant their eggs underneath your skin and eat you from the inside out.

And scientists are also excited about what they believe to be an ocean underneath the surface of Jupiter's frozen moon, Europa.

You'll feel a sharp scratch just underneath your collar bone.

And you know this because underneath that suit you are fully inked?

The astronomers suddenly notice strange beings coming out from underneath the mushrooms while making singular contortions.

And the professor underneath, he complained too.

It'll crash down and kill anything underneath it.

I Swear,Underneath It All, He's Still A Good Boy.

Is There Water Boiling Underneath You?

Now I will show you how we make coffee in the desert. underneath the stars.

But underneath she's a pearl.

Stick your ears up underneath.

This young English lady underneath.

Well, you tell the young English lady underneath. that I am putting on record for the benefit of mankind. one of the lost folk dances of Central Europe. and furthermore, she does not own this hotel.

Before they milk them, the sheep people slap them all around underneath to make the milk thicker and then they put it in a cave and.

He's coming up underneath you.

Your sympathy, your concern. all pretense, underneath which you resent me.

OK, but underneath this lion's skin beats a heart seething with sentiment.

The young English lady underneath.

Hey, you didn't put my things underneath there?

Those June nights on the Riviera. when we sat underneath the shimmering skies. moonlight-bathing in the Mediterranean.

You don't know anything about them. Underneath you're still as romantic and full of illusions as any schoolgirl.

Sylvia is all right, underneath.

It was what they call half-timbered, with tapestry brick underneath.

There are a thousand and one little things that go on underneath the surface.

George, you tried to swing underneath me and break the fall for me when we went over. I knew you were doing that.

But underneath I think she had this.

Ah yes, underneath the jacket.

He fell from the scaffold. We found him underneath.

There are rolls underneath.

But underneath it all, she's falling for him in spite of herself, see?

And knowledge is buried underneath this mountain.

I forgot - they've practically nothing to wear underneath.

Underneath is a concrete basement, where he married Eva Braun and where they killed themselves.

So what is on your mind, I mean, underneath?

I didn't know they were living underneath.

But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

There must be a pretty deep fault underneath there, or it wouldn't have caved in.

News and current affairs

An old quarry was being widened and leveled, and the boys followed the bulldozers as they scraped away a stratum of earth to reveal fragile, fossil-bearing shale underneath.

This is the realization that lies underneath our all-encompassing focus on security.

Yet underneath the common battlegrounds of political debate in Britain and Germany and elsewhere in Europe, value clashes are lurking.

It would be incomplete, however, were one not to mention the warm, curious, friendly, and humorous human being underneath it all.

The first problem is China's economy, so dynamic on the surface, but so rickety underneath.

But, in the real world, not everyone is underneath the helicopter when it makes the drop.

Underneath, it will be characterized by engagement and mutual accommodation, in the name of shared interests.

Underneath this clear-cut quid pro quo of political bargaining, the representatives from Fatah and Hamas are charged with finding the means to reconcile Hamas's tremendously popular political ideology with Fatah's traditional secular aspirations.

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