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basins

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plural of basin

Synonyms & Antonyms of basins

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

They washed their clothes in a basin.

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for basins

bowls

containers,
holders,
receptacles,
vessels

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

carriers

cartridges

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 & Near Synonyms for basins

bowls,
valleys

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

canyons
(also cañons),
combes
(also coombes or coombs)
[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 & Near Antonyms for basins

hills,
mounds,
rises

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

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

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