单词 | hole |
例句 | hole noun 1.•a hole in the roof:opening, aperture, gap, space, orifice, vent, chink, breach, break | crack, leak, rift, rupture | puncture, perforation, cut, split, gash, slit, rent, tear, crevice, fissure. 2.•a hole in the ground:pit, ditch, trench, cavity, crater, depression, indentation, hollow | well, borehole, excavation, dugout | cave, cavern, pothole. 3.•the gopher's hole:burrow, lair, den, earth, set | retreat, shelter. 4.•there are holes in their argument:flaw, fault, defect, weakness, shortcoming, inconsistency, discrepancy, loophole | error, mistake. 5.informal •I was living in a real hole:hovel, slum, shack | informal dump, dive, pigsty, hole in the wall, rathole, sty. 6.informal •she has dug herself into a hole:predicament, difficult situation, awkward situation, corner, tight corner, quandary, dilemma | crisis, emergency, difficulty, trouble, plight, dire straits, imbroglio | informal fix, jam, mess, bind, scrape, spot, tight spot, pickle, sticky situation, can of worms, hot water. PHRASES hole up 1.•the bears hole up in winter:hibernate, lie dormant. 2.informal •the snipers holed up in a farmhouse:hide (out), conceal oneself, secrete oneself, shelter, take cover, lie low. poke holes in informal •it was pretty easy to poke holes in his theories:find fault with, pick apart, deconstruct, query, quibble with | deflate, puncture. in the hole •the diner was in the hole within six months after his sons took over:in debt, in arrears, in deficit, overdrawn, behind | informal in the red. |
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