hole

noun

1)

a hole in the roof

Syn:

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

Syn:

pit, ditch, trench, cavity, crater, depression, indentation, hollow; well, borehole, excavation, dugout; cave, cavern, pothole

3)

the gopher's hole

Syn:

burrow, lair, den, earth, set; retreat, shelter

4)

there are holes in their argument

Syn:

flaw, fault, defect, weakness, shortcoming, inconsistency, discrepancy, loophole; error, mistake

5) informal

I was living in a real hole

Syn:

hovel, slum, shack; informal dump, dive, pigsty, hole in the wall, rathole, sty

6) informal

she has dug herself into a hole

Syn:

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

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- hole up

- poke holes in

- in the hole