belowground

[ bih-loh-ground ]

adjective
  1. situated beneath the surface of the earth; subterranean.

  2. no longer living; buried, as in a cemetery (usually used predicatively): All those who might have known about the incident are now belowground.

Origin of belowground

1
First recorded in 1955–60; below + ground1

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