when you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging
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verb
- To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- To scour a watercourse.
- To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
- To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
noun
- An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
- A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- A raised causeway.
- Any small body of water.
- Any fence or hedge.
- Any navigable watercourse.
- A beaver's dam.
- Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- A non-heterosexual woman.
- Any watercourse.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- A jetty; a pier.
- A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
verb
- To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
- To go into a hole.
- To make holes in (an object or surface).
- To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
- To destroy.
noun
- An undesirable place to live or visit.
- A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- An excavation pit or trench.
- A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- A container or receptacle.
- Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- Sex, or a sex partner.
- A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- A chordless cycle in a graph.
- A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
- A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
noun
noun
- A collapse or cave-in.
- A code cave.
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
- The vagina.
verb
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
- To hollow out or undermine.
- To surrender.
- In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
- To collapse.
intj
verb
- To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- To abridge; to curtail.
- To cut down or reduce.
- To live less expensively; to economize.
- To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- To take up a new defensive position.
verb
- To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
- To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
- To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
- To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.
- To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
- To become completely absorbed in and fully accept one's beliefs, even in the face of evidence against it and refusing to be reasoned with.
noun
- a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
- a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
- the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
- (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment
- an enclosure in which animals are made to fight
- (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on
- (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled
- a trap in the form of a concealed hole
- a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
- lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
- a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
verb
verb
- To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
- To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
- To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
- To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.
- To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
noun
- A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
- An instance of wallowing.
- A kind of rolling walk.
adj
adj
verb
- To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
- To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
- To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
- To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
noun
verb
noun
- A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
- A sunken area.
- A small valley between mountains.
- A feeling of emptiness.
adv
adj
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- Pertaining to hollow body position
- Having an empty space or cavity inside.
noun
- A deep hole or pit, a water well; an abyss.
- A deep shade of colour.
- A silent time; quiet isolation.
- The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
- The profound part of a problem.
- A fielding position near the boundary.
- The sea, the ocean.
adv
- In a profound, not superficial, manner.
- In large volume.
- Back towards one's own goal, baseline, or similar.
- Far, especially far down through something or into something, physically or figuratively.
adj
- In a (specified) number of rows or layers.
- Positioned or reaching far, especially down through something or into something.
- Voluminous.
- Far in extent in another (non-downwards, but generally also non-upwards) direction away from a point of reference.
- Low in pitch.
- Far from the center of the playing area, near to the boundary of the playing area, either in absolute terms or relative to a point of reference.
- Distant in the past, ancient.
- Significant, not superficial, in extent.
- Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
- Extending far down from the top, or surface, to the bottom, literally or figuratively.
- Penetrating a long way, especially a long way forward.
- Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; intricate; obscure.
- Positioned back, or downfield, towards one's own goal, or towards or behind one's baseline or similar reference point.
- Thick.
- Profound, having great meaning or import, but possibly obscure or not obvious.
- Extending to a level or length equivalent to the stated thing.
- Highly saturated; rich.
- Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).
- Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
verb
- To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- To pick one's nose.
- To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
pron
- Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
- Used predicatively.
- Used substantively, with an implied noun.
- Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun.
noun
- Any source of wealth or resources.
- A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
noun
- A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
- A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- The groove of a pulley.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- An act of gorging.
verb
- To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
- To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
adj
adj
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Scribbly.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- Stunted.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
verb
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
- To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
noun
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with take-out food.
- The shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
verb
- To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
- To persist or continue with something.
- To ingest a drug rectally
- To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
- To have sex with, penetrate sexually.
- To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
noun
- A promotion (act of promoting) a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing (concept, etc), for example during an interview or a commercial.
- A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
- A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
- An electric socket: wall plug.
- Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
- A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
- A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
- A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
- A high, tapering silk hat.
- A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
- A drug dealer.
- A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
- A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- A worthless horse.
- A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
noun
- One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
- A vagina.
- Jig, Jigger, Jigabou, derogatory terms meaning the same as American Nigger.
- A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
- A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
- A measure of 1 ½ fluid ounces of liquor.
- A drink of whisky.
- A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
- A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
- A lock pick.
- The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
- An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
- An illegal distillery.
- A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1 ½ fluid ounces, the other typically 1 fluid ounce.
- A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
- A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
- A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
- A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
- A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
- A warehouse crane.
- A jiggermast.
- The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
verb
verb
- To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
- To attach to a water supply and drain.
- To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
- To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
- To work as a plumber.
- To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
- To fall or sink like a plummet.
- To position vertically above or below.
adj
- Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of their wicket and should be given out.
- Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
noun
- A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
- A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
- The perpendicular direction or position.
adv
noun
- Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- Marijuana.
- A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- A plaster cast.
- Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- Ruin or deterioration.
- A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
verb
- To put (something) into a pot.
- To secure; gain; win; bag.
- To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
- To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- To be capable of being potted.
- To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- To shoot with a firearm.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- To score (a drop goal).
noun
verb
- To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
- To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
- To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
- To shoot; to kill.
- To hit or kick with a lot of power.
noun
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
- A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
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