NETHER

nether

Noun

  1. Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
  2. A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

Verb

  1. To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
  2. To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
  3. To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
  4. To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
  5. To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.

Adjective

  1. Lower; under.
    The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
  2. Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
    The nether regions.

Adverb

  1. Down; downward.
  2. Low; low down.


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