Synonyms for UNDERWATER
ˈʌn dərˈwɔ tər, -ˈwɒt ərun·der·wa·ter

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1. underwateradjective

   Synonyms:
   upside down, subaqueous

   Antonyms:
   afloat

2. underwateradjective

   to water or irrigate insufficiently

   Synonyms:
   subaqueous, upside down

   Antonyms:
   afloat

3. underwateradjective

   beneath the water line of a vessel

   Synonyms:
   subaqueous, upside down

4. underwateradjective

   having negative equity; owing more on an asset than its market value

   We've been underwater on our mortgage ever since the housing crash.

   Synonyms:
   subaqueous, upside down

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1. submerged, submersed, underwateradjective

   beneath the surface of the water

   "submerged rocks"

   Synonyms:
   submerged, underwater, subaqueous, subaquatic, submersed

   Antonyms:
   terrestrial, overhead, surface, amphibious

2. subaqueous, subaquatic, submerged, submersed, underwateradjective

   growing or remaining under water

   "viewing subaqueous fauna from a glass-bottomed boat"; "submerged leaves"

   Synonyms:
   semiaquatic, underwater, submerged, subaqueous, subaquatic, submersed

   Antonyms:
   overhead, amphibious, surface, terrestrial

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1. List of paraphrases for "underwater":

   submarine, subaqueous, undersea, subsea, submarines, sub-surface, scuba, sub, submerged, u-boat, u-boats, under-sea, diving

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1. David Mearns:

   With an interim report due to be delivered within a month of the accident, authorities have expressed hopes a remote underwater vehicle provides evidence. FRENCH SOCCER CLUB DEMAND PAYMENT OVER $ 19M EMILIANO SALA TRANSFER AS DIVERS SEARCH FOR HIS BODY The formal search was called off within three days of the plane disappearing from radar last month. It took a campaign by Salas family to raise funds for a private search by American-born, shipwreck-hunting specialist David Mearns, who located the aircraft within hours on Sunday in conjunction with air crash investigators. David Mearns told BBC Radio Wales that finding the pilots body would be difficult. Ive been involved in operations when people were lost and the bodies were found days and weeks after, not far from where they were lost.

2. Paul Allen:

   We’ve done a number of these explorations to try to find sunken warships, we try to do these both as really exciting examples of underwater archeology and as tributes to the brave men that went down in these ships.

3. Jodie Rummer:

   I witnessed a sight underwater that no marine biologist, and no person with a love and appreciation for the natural world for that matter, wants to see, the bleaching now is not just restricted to the hard corals. There’s also extensive bleaching in the soft corals, and it is also affecting anemones and giant clams.

4. Richard Peirce:

   If you're a diver with an underwater camera, use it, if you're a snorkeler, rip off your snorkel and use it to poke the shark, i've had a lot of sharks come at me, and it's (been) enough to use a shark billy -- a small metal rod between two and three feet long -- and I've just given them a little nudge on their nose.

5. Woody Fischer:

   There are still many kilometers of Mars history to explore, the strata will reveal Gale’s early history, its tory. We know there are rocks that were deposited underwater, in the lake. What is the chemistry of these rocks ? That lake represented an interface between the water and the atmosphere, and should tell us important things about the environment of the time.