Below
Below adverb - In or to a lower place.
Usage example: the skipper climbed below to fix the engine
Under
Under adverb - In or to a lower place.
Usage example: crouch down under where they won't see you
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Present near the end of Beneath a Steel Sky, seen as evidence of the "evil under the city" once the protagonist descends below ground level.
Source: Meat Moss -
A woman who commits suicide by gun usually does it from below and under her clothes.
Source: Suicide, Not Murder -
In the Kung Fu Panda fanfic The Vow, Lord Shen avoids being crushed beneath a cannon because the deck of his destroyed ship under him collapses, resulting in him falling into the waters below.
Source: Floorboard Failure
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