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basins

noun , plural of basin

Synonyms and Antonyms of basins

1 a large circular container used especially for holding water for washing

They washed their clothes in a basin.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of basins

containers, holders, receptacles, vessels

bottles, buckets, cans, jars, jugs, kegs, kettles, kits, packs, pails, pitchers, pots, tubs, vats

baskets, bins, boxes, caddies, cartons, cases, caskets, chests, crates, handbaskets, lockers, trunks

bags, hampers, pockets, sacks

coolers, warmers

2 a depressed or sunken area of land

The animals drank from a shallow basin surrounded by grasslands.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of basins

cavities, concavities, dents, depressions, dints, holes, hollows, indentations, indentures, pits, recesses

canyons (also cañons), combes (also coombes) [British], dells, dingles, glens, gorges, gulches, gullies (also gulleys), kloofs [South African], ravines, rift valleys

burrows, caverns, caves, ditches, excavations, furrows, grooves, gutters, trenches, troughs

abysses, chasms, gulfs, vacuities, vacuums (or vacua), voids

boreholes, chuckholes, craters, postholes, potholes, sinkholes, wallows, water holes, wells

alcoves, clefts, niches, nooks, openings, sockets

alveoli, dimples, gouges, impressions, imprints, notches, pockets

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of basins

hills, mounds, rises

bumps, bunches, humps, lumps, pimples, swellings, swells, tumors

bulges, cambers, convexities, juts, projections, protrusions, protuberances

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