hole

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

holes

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

hole

past (v2)

holed

past participle (v3)

holed

present participle

holing

3rd person singular

holes

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.

   • I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
   • To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.

2. 2.An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.

   • The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
   • There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.

3. 3.In games.

   • The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
   • I played 18 holes yesterday. The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.

4. 4.An excavation pit or trench.(slang)

   • The diameter of the hole was slightly larger.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To destroy.

   • She completely holed the argument.

2. 2.To make holes in (an object or surface).

   • Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.

3. 3.To go into a hole.

4. 4.To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

   • If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.

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