BOREHOLE Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

borehole

noun

Definition of borehole

as in excavation

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Recent Examples of borehole Engineers have already drilled the first data acquisition borehole to approximately 6,000 feet, providing information that will guide the next phase of development. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026 For a study in PNAS Nexus, researchers tracked the effects of such shake-ups on microbes at the bottom of a 100-meter-deep borehole in Yellowstone National Park. — Damien Pine, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2026 Despite the large swath of the Midcontinent Rift through Iowa, Clark said the state geological survey, housed at the University of Iowa, has only 24 borehole samples that were drilled deep enough, and in the right location, to intersect the basalt of the Midcontinent Rift. — Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 17 Feb. 2026 With funding from the Global Environment Facility, or GEF, the Djibouti government spent $150,000 digging a borehole to access underground water and another $100,000 fitting it with a solar pump that would fill a series of large concrete water tanks. — Julie Bourdin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for borehole

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The excavation is expected to be complete in another month, with plans to showcase the archaeological finds to the public, the Fine Arts Department said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026
It was found outside the northeast corner of the Alamo Church, in an adjacent excavation unit where another intact cannonball was unearthed in March.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026

Definition of excavation

Noun

Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
Domaine du Météore has a vineyard set inside a meteorite crater whose sunken topography, the estate says, gives fresher, lower-alcohol fruit.

— Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026

Definition of crater

Noun

Paul walks the cavern’s polished concrete floor, absorbs its hum, grazes its plastic surfaces with his fingertips.

— Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
Dragonstone is the windswept ancestral seat of House Targaryen, but the Black Queen did not grow up playing among its dusky caverns.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026

Definition of cavern

Noun

Jade and Tabitha were trapped below in the bone cave at the end of last week’s episode.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Located on the outskirts of a town called Fureidis in northern Israel, the cave was due to be affected by construction work when archaeologists decided to investigate it.

— Jack Guy, CNN Money, 29 June 2026

Definition of cave

Noun

The 64-year-old had come from Oklahoma with his wife and son to walk up the 56 steps next to Sinking Spring, a sinkhole opening to a karst aquifer from which Lincoln first drank.

— Chris Kenning, USA Today, 2 July 2026
In the 1890s, Henry Flagler’s crews leveled a massive burial mound to build his Royal Palm hotel across the river, selling skulls as souvenirs and dumping the rest of the human remains into a sinkhole, never since found.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026

Definition of sinkhole

Noun

Tiered terraces travel down the sloping backyard past granite outcroppings and towering pines before opening to panoramic views across the entire Lake Tahoe basin.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 30 June 2026
Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026

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