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DEEP-SEA
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or taking place in the deeper parts of the sea
Example:
deep-sea exploration
Classified under:
Similar:
marine (relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea)
Context examples:
Of the meagreness of a child’s life? of fish diet and coarse living? of going out with the boats from the time I could crawl? of my brothers, who went away one by one to the deep-sea farming and never came back? of myself, unable to read or write, cabin-boy at the mature age of ten on the coastwise, old-country ships? of the rough fare and rougher usage, where kicks and blows were bed and breakfast and took the place of speech, and fear and hatred and pain were my only soul-experiences? I do not care to remember.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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