BOREHOLE Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

borehole

noun

Definition of borehole

as in excavation

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Recent Examples of borehole Unlike conventional nuclear plants, Deep Fission’s design places a pressurized water reactor about one mile below the surface inside a deep borehole. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026 What The Other 100% Looks Like In a place called Kelelwa, Kenya, our organization rehabilitated a colonial-era borehole and powered it with an electric pump. — Sarah Evans, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 So the first project is to subsidize a borehole right by the school. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 11 June 2026 While the application calls this storage, the deep borehole method is typically considered as a permanent disposal option. — Mark Dee april 13, Idaho Statesman, 13 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for borehole

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Noun

If the plans to destroy the theater are followed through, the process will, ironically, have to start with an excavation.

— Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
The excavation was conducted between 2025 and 2026 ahead of an expansion of Pasta Garofalo's production facility, with the findings recently announced by the company in July.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of excavation

Noun

Tasks included scooping and dumping sand or gravel, digging and grading trenches, clearing debris from roads, removing tree branches from water edges, and breaking up rocks.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2026
That made General Manager Adam Peters comfortable going the entire offseason without making a significant addition to the offensive trenches.

— Tashan Reed, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of trench

Noun

To descend to the pitch-black floor of a crater, Chang’e-7 will deploy a novel hopping probe.

— Reuters, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2026
The researchers zeroed in on the most likely scenario of an asteroid measuring about 1,050 feet (320 meters) across striking Deimos at a 45-degree angle, creating the south pole crater and the dust layer.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of crater

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This cushion is required at the very top of the caverns to keep the extraction pipes safely submerged in oil rather than the underlying water.

— Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
The oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is stored at 60 salt caverns thousands of feet underground at four major sites along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of cavern

Noun

After carefully entering the cave, the photographer watched as more turtles arrived with the rising tide, eventually counting 17 individuals sharing this quiet refuge.

— Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Over time, this process creates fractures, caves and sinkholes.

— Nolan Roth, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of cave

Noun

One of the reasons the water hole has been so favored is because radio waves in this frequency range are not absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026
There were about 50 of them and they were strung out over a wide, grassy plain near a water hole.

— Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026

Definition of water hole

Noun

Sometimes, the same process that started the sinkhole can form new stream channels that drain the lake, leaving a circular basin of bare ground behind.

— Anna Liljedahl, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
This contrasts with a sinkhole, which typically implies a structural issue with underground natural materials.

— Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of sinkhole

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Hurricane Betsy, primarily affecting southern Florida and Louisiana, became the first tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin to cause at least $1 billion in damage.

— USA Today, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
However, the plan imposes no mandatory cuts on the four upper basin states of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming — which, unlike the lower basin, cannot be compelled to cut water by federal authorities.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026

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