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basement

noun as in room on lower floor of building

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Instead, she sits up from her basement’s fuzzy rug and kicks her legs out from the river of ice cream sandwich wrappers.

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They crept into his home en masse, climbing through the air-conditioning units, clinging to the window curtains, marching down the wall, trotting across the vaulted ceiling, lurking in the gloom of the basement.

“None of the appliances worked. They didn’t know how to fix anything because there were no walls, no attic or basement.”

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A maintenance worker was in the reactor building at unit 2 when he heard rumbling in the basement.

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After dinner I found two big boards in the basement.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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