hole
noun
[ həʊl ]
• a hollow place in a solid body or surface.
• "the dog had dug a hole in the ground"
Similar:
pit,
ditch,
trench,
cavity,
crater,
depression,
hollow,
well,
borehole,
excavation,
shaft,
mineshaft,
dugout,
cave,
cavern,
pothole,
chamber,
gorge,
chasm,
canyon,
ravine,
• a place or position that needs to be filled because someone or something is no longer there.
• "she is missed terribly and her death has left a hole in all our lives"
• an unpleasant place.
• "she had wasted a whole lifetime in this hole of a town"
hole
verb
• make a hole or holes in.
• "a fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started"
Similar:
puncture,
make a hole in,
perforate,
pierce,
penetrate,
rupture,
spike,
stab,
split,
slit,
rent,
lacerate,
gash,
gore,
• hit (the ball) into a hole.
• "George holed a six-iron shot from the fairway"
Origin:
Old English hol (noun), holian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hol (noun) ‘cave’, (adjective) ‘hollow’, and German hohl ‘hollow’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘cover, conceal’.
in the hole
• in debt.
• "we're still three thousand dollars in the hole"
