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dimples

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plural of dimple

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as in pockets, impressions

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for dimples

alveoli,
gouges,
impressions,
imprints,
notches,
pockets

alcoves,
clefts,
niches,
nooks,
openings,
sockets

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

basins,
bowls,
valleys

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

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms for dimples

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

hills,
mounds,
rises

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

dimples

verb

present tense third-person singular of dimple

Synonyms & Antonyms of dimples (Entry 2 of 2)

as in dents

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for dimples

dents

coils,
curls,
enrolls
(also enrols),
loops,
spirals

meanders,
waves,
weaves,
winds

entwines,
kinks,
swirls,
turns,
twines,
twists,
veers,
warps

declines,
inclines,
slopes

deflects,
diverts

incurvates,
incurves,
inflects,
reflects

arcs,
rounds

arches,
bends,
bows,
crooks,
curves,
hooks,
swerves

Antonyms & Near Antonyms for dimples

straightens,
unbends,
uncurls

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