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underswell

noun

Etymology

From under- + swell.

  1. inherited from *swellaną✻ — “to swell”
  2. inherited from *swellan✻
  3. inherited from swellan
  4. inherited from swellen
  5. prefixed as underswell — “under + swell”

Definitions

  1. An undercurrent.

  2. A swelling undersection.

    • Something had altered the normal perspectives of the room. Trying to focus on the grey underswell of the ceiling, I listened for footsteps outside. Sure enough, the corridor wall began to retract.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for underswell. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA