hole
hole
nounDefinition of HOLE
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a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing <line up the pegs on section A with the holes in section B and press the two together>
Related Words loophole; breach, break, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, fissure, gash, notch, rent, rift, rupture, slash, slit, split, tear; slot, space; exit, mouth, outlet, pore, vent; entrance, inlet, intake; pinhole, pinprick, punch, puncture; airhole, armhole, buttonhole, keyhole, knothole, peephole, pothole, wormhole
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a sunken area forming a separate space <dig a hole big enough to plant the tree>
Related Words burrow, cave, cavern, ditch, excavation, furrow, groove, gutter, trench, trough; basin, bowl, valley; alcove, cleft, niche, nook, opening, recess, socket; alveolus, dimple, gouge, impression, imprint, notch, pocket; borehole, chuckhole, crater, posthole, pothole, sinkhole, wallow, water hole, well; abyss, chasm, gulf, vacuity, vacuum, void
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a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape <Bill dug himself into a hole by promising to be in two places at the same time>
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a dirty or messy place <when people see my room, they often ask, “How can you live in this hole?”>
5
an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge) <found a hole in the chain-link fence big enough to squeeze through>
Synonyms breach, break, discontinuity, gulf, hiatus, hole, interstice, interval, opening, rent, rift, separation, void
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an incomplete or deficient area <there's a huge hole in your logic>
Related Words defectiveness, detriment, disability, failing, fault, impairment, weakness; deficiency, deficit, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, need, shortcoming, shortfall, want
Near Antonyms completeness, fullness
