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drillsnounpl. of drill an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activityshuttling the kids between extracurricular activities is all part of the suburban drill grinds, grooves, locksteps, patterns, rotes, routines, ruts, treadmills daily dozens, regimenshousekeepingscustoms, fashions, habits, practices(also practises), tricks, wontsapproaches, manners, methods, procedures, strategies, styles, tacks, techniques, waysdesigns, plans, programs, schemesconventions, policies, traditions something done over and over in order to develop skilldoing vocabulary drills all afternoon in preparation for the test drillsverb1present tense third-person singular of drillto make a hole or series of holes inthe nerve-jangling sound when a dentist drills a tooth bores, holes, perforates, pierces, punches, punctures, riddles broaches, tapspokes, prickles, prickspenetratesburrows (into), excavates, gouges, grooves, hollowsbreaks, cuts, gashes, notches, rends, ruptures, slashes, slits, splits fills, patches, plugs, seals to strike with a missile from a gundrilled the target from 100 yards away guns, plugs, pops, shoots blows away, brings down, drops, picks off, shoots downblazes, peppers, potshots, snipes (at)blasts (at), fires (at)pistols, shotgunsmachine-guns, tommy-gunscroaks(slang), destroys, dispatches, does in, fells, ices(slang), kills, slaysannihilates, blots out, butchers, decimates, massacres, slaughters, wipes out drillsverb2present tense third-person singular of drillto put or set into the ground to growhe drills soybeans in the same rows with corn |