underlife
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a word derived from
life.
lifenounthe condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
Example Sentences
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None that has not felt it can understand it so cold, so sweet, so full of sleep, so stirring with an underlife.
From The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker
I fail, however, to catch the note of penitence in London's narratives of his underlife, and my charge of literary stealing was not based on his primeval man book, "Before Adam."
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce