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holenoun a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thingline up the pegs on section A with the holes in section B and press the two together aperture, opening, orifice, perforation loopholebreach, break, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, fissure, gash, notch, rent, rift, rupture, slash, slit, split, tearslot, spaceexit, mouth, outlet, pore, vententrance, inlet, intakepinhole, pinprick, punch, punctureairhole, armhole, buttonhole, keyhole, knothole, peephole, pothole, wormhole fill, filler, filling, patch, plug, seal, stopperbarrier, blockage, obstacle, obstruction a sunken area forming a separate spacedig a hole big enough to plant the tree cavity, concavity, dent, depression, dint, hollow, indentation, indenture, pit, recess burrow, cave, cavern, ditch, excavation, furrow, groove, gutter, trench, troughbasin, bowl, valleyalcove, cleft, niche, nook, opening, socketalveolus, dimple, gouge, impression, imprint, notch, pocketborehole, chuckhole, crater, posthole, pothole, sinkhole, wallow, water hole, wellabyss, chasm, gulf, vacuity, vacuum, void bulge, camber, convexity, jut, projection, protrusion, protuberance hill, mound, risebump, bunch, hump, lump, pimple, swell, swelling, tumor a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapeBill dug himself into a hole by promising to be in two places at the same time bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, impasse, jackpot(chiefly West), jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp difficulty, nodehot water, souppinch, plight, quandary, scrape, troubledeadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstillclutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait kettle of fish a dirty or messy placewhen people see my room, they often ask, "How can you live in this hole?" dump, hellhole, pigpen, pigsty, shambles, sty chaos, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganization, mess, muddle, musshavoc, hell, mare's nest, snake pitclutter, jumble, litter, mishmash, welter an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)found a hole in the chain-link fence big enough to squeeze through breach, break, discontinuity, gap, gulf, hiatus, interstice, interval, opening, rent, rift, separation, void chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissurenotch, slit, slot, splitinterspace, poreabyss, aperture, cavity, chasm, gape, orificefracture, rupture, severance, sundering the shelter or resting place of a wild animalwatched the snake slither into its hole burrow, den, house, lair, lodge nestterritory an incomplete or deficient areathere's a huge hole in your logic gap, hiatus, lacuna, space, void defectiveness, detriment, disability, failing, fault, impairment, weaknessdeficiency, deficit, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, need, shortcoming, shortfall, want completeness, fullness holeverbto make a hole or series of holes inholed the target with a round of shots bore, drill, perforate, pierce, punch, puncture, riddle broach, tappoke, prick, pricklepenetrateburrow (into), excavate, gouge, groove, hollowbreak, cut, gash, notch, rend, rupture, slash, slit, split fill, patch, plug, seal before the 12th century |