Fromunder(preposition) +water.
underwater (comparativemoreunderwater,superlativemostunderwater)
- (not comparable)Beneath thesurface of thewater; of or pertaining to the region beneath the water surface.
Watch out forunderwater obstacles.
He was a pioneer inunderwater exploration.
- (nautical) Beneath thewater line of avessel.
When the ship was brought into dry dock, it was found that she hadunderwater damage.
- (figuratively) In difficulty, especially financially.
- Antonyms:above water,solvent,in the black
- Hyponyms:insolvent,in the red
- (finance) Havingnegative equity; owing more on an asset than its market value.
We've beenunderwater on our mortgage ever since the housing crash.
2013 May 13,Underwater (Bates Motel), episode 9 (Television), spoken by Matt Bronstein (Matthew MacCaull), via A&E:You'reunderwater. The best thing you can do is just walk away. Let the bank take it back.
- (finance) Of anoption, having astrike price higher (call options) or lower (put options) than the current market price of the underlying asset or financial product; for example, an option to buy shares at $20 when the current market price is $15.
beneath the water surface
- Azerbaijani:sualtı
- Belarusian:падво́дны(padvódny)
- Bulgarian:подводен(podvoden)
- Catalan:submarina
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:水下 (zh)(shuǐxià)
- Czech:podvodní (cs)
- Dutch:onderwater (nl),onderwater-
- Esperanto:subakva
- Finnish:vedenalainen (fi)
- French:sous-marin (fr) m
- Georgian:წყალქვეშა(c̣q̇alkveša)
- German:unterWasser,Unterwasser-
- Greek:υποθαλάσσιος (el)(ypothalássios)
- Ancient:ὕφυδρος(húphudros)
- Irish:faoi uisce,faoi thoinn
- Italian:subacqueo (it),sottacqua,sott'acqua (it)
- Japanese:水中の(すいちゅうの, suichū no)
- Kazakh:су асты(su asty)
- Korean:수중 (ko)(sujung)
- Latin:summersus
- Latvian:zemūdens
- Navajo:táłtłʼáahdi
- Norwegian:
- Nynorsk:undervass-
- Persian:زیرآبی (fa)(zêr-e-âbi),تحتالبحری(taht-ol-bahri)
- Polish:podwodny (pl) m
- Portuguese:submarino (pt),subaquático (pt),submarinho (pt)
- Russian:подво́дный (ru)(podvódnyj)
- Spanish:sumergido (es),subacuático
- Tajik:зериобӣ(zeriobi)
- Tamil:நீருக்கடியில்(nīrukkaṭiyil)
- Thai:please add this translation if you can
- Turkish:su altı (tr)
- Ukrainian:підво́дний(pidvódnyj)
- Vietnamese:please add this translation if you can
- Welsh:tanddwr (cy)
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nautical: beneath the water line
underwater (comparativemoreunderwater,superlativemostunderwater)
- So as to gobeneath thesurface of thewater.
Can you swimunderwater?
nautical: going beneath the surface of the water
underwater (pluralunderwaters)
- Underlying water or body of water, for example in anaquifer or the deep ocean.
- (fishing) A type oflure which lies beneath the water surface.
1923, Sheridan R. Jones,Bait Casting: The Short Rod and How to Use It[1], page57:Practically all wobblingunderwaters will take fish aplenty in the hands of a man who really knows how to put them through their stints.
Fromunder- +water.
underwater (third-person singular simple presentunderwaters,present participleunderwatering,simple past and past participleunderwatered)
- (agriculture, horticulture, transitive) Towater orirrigate insufficiently.
Care must be taken not tounderwater houseplants in the summer.
2021 July 22, “Is Your Plant Overwatered or Underwatered?”, inSustained Kitchen[2]:If your plant is wilting, this could be another sign of overwatering orunderwatering.
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