underworld
ਅੰਡਰਵਰਲਡ
definition
noun
It is suggested that an underworld crime figure planned to grab the mother and her child and to demand a six figure sum.
the world of criminals or of organized crime.
To gain entrance to this forbidden domain she threatened to break down the gates of the underworld , free the dead and devour the living.
the mythical abode of the dead, imagined as being under the earth.
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Pluto is the mythological ruler of the 'underworld' , the keeper of dark secrets.
The book, which deals with the criminal 'underworld' , will be published next year, and has been described as a ‘thrilling literary debut’.
The spirit assumes the appearance of a dead man and goes down to the 'underworld' .
Gardaí have repeatedly raised concerns at the poor security measures taken by many legal gun owners and the extent to which these firearms end up in the criminal 'underworld' , to be used in shootings and murders.
Pluto, or Hades, rules the 'underworld' but even he was taken by the power of love and lust, for Proserpina.
Detectives hunting a gunman who executed a father-of-three in a gangland murder have appealed to the criminal 'underworld' to help nail the killer.
She also guides Persephone to the 'underworld' and back twice a year and thus has a part to play in the seasons.
Like Orpheus bringing Eurydice out of the 'underworld' , it seems the novelist cannot look directly at love without losing it.
When Aeneas travels to the 'underworld' , as most heroes do, he is accompanied by Sibyl, his guide sent by Apollo.
They have run the biggest drug businesses, which have been going for a long time, very successfully, in the criminal 'underworld' .
The criminal 'underworld' was considering hiring foreign hit-men for a possible assassination attempt.
In the famous sixth book of the Aeneid, Aeneas travels to the 'underworld' in search of his father, Anchises.
Like other similar goddesses, she has her connection with the 'underworld' : in the Book of the Dead she is shown accompanying the soul to judgement and providing the deceased with food and drink.
And I will be more powerful than any other on the face of the earth or in the 'underworld' .
I like doing freelance work for the criminal 'underworld' .
To gain entrance to this forbidden domain she threatened to break down the gates of the 'underworld' , free the dead and devour the living.
a prominent 'underworld' figure
It is suggested that an 'underworld' crime figure planned to grab the mother and her child and to demand a six figure sum.
Too late they discover that he is an 'underworld' crime lord, and that crossing him results in an inevitable slow and painful death.
He introduces him to the criminal 'underworld' and, as partners, they rob and beat men in darkened alleys.
Mr Williams praised the Gardaí but vowed not to be intimidated by those in the criminal 'underworld' who he has been exposing for more than a decade.
The concept of the dead travelling through the 'underworld' in a boat is regularly depicted in the Valley of the Kings and the tombs of the Pharaohs.
I am a living breathing hormonal teenage girl though I would much rather prefer to be a living dead goddess of the 'underworld' with no emotions at all.
He deals with all sorts of crime in the 'underworld' of this city, from petty theft to murder, and everything in between.
Orpheus retrieves Eurydice from the 'underworld' on the condition that he not look back at her shadow until both have emerged from the vale of Avernus.
Last year, the unit seized more than 200 illegal guns and more than 3,500 rounds of assorted ammunition, which are in demand in the criminal 'underworld' .
During the last six millennia, the hero's journey to the 'underworld' of the dead has been a main part of epic storylines.
His sentiments about modern life and the criminal 'underworld' reveal a pragmatic, yet easy going man, gradually helping to make his own vulnerability a point of concern.
A number of journalists were attacked in 2003 as a result of their investigation into the criminal 'underworld' .
In the myth of the Orpheus / Eurydice saga, Orpheus was given a dispensation by Pluto to return his wife from the 'underworld' (she had been bitten by a poisonous serpent and died).
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