hole
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/həʊl/
English
Definitions
noun
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.“There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.”
- (heading) In games.
- An excavation pit or trench.
- A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.“I have found a hole in your argument.”
verb
- To make holes in (an object or surface).“Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.”
- (by extension) To destroy.“She completely holed the argument.”
- To go into a hole.
- To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.“Woods holed a standard three foot putt”
adjective
- Entire, undivided.“I ate a whole fish.”
- Sound, uninjured, healthy.“He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state.”
- (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.“whole wheat; whole milk”
- As yet unworked.
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