Synonyms of the word

hole

• n. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.;…
• n. (heading) In games.
• n. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
• n. (figuratively) A weakness, a flaw.
• n. (informal) A container or receptacle.
• n. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged…
• n. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
• n. (slang anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus.
• n. (Ireland, idiomatic, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
• n. (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
• n. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
• n. (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
• n. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
• v. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
• v. (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
• v. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
• v. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
• v. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
• v. simple past tense of hele.
• adj. Obsolete form of whole.

cakehole

• n. (slang, vulgar) Mouth.
• n. (slang, vulgar) Vagina.

defect

• n. A fault or malfunction.
• n. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
• n. (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
• v. (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military…
• v. (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
• v. (military) To join the enemy army.
• v. (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.

depression

• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…
• n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer…
• n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting…
• n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
• n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
• n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the…

difficulty

• n. The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
• n. An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
• n. Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning.

fault

• n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. A weakness of character; a failing.
• n. A minor offense.
• n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
• n. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
• n. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
• n. (tennis) An illegal serve.
• n. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) want; lack.
• n. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
• v. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
• v. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
• v. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.

fix

• n. A repair or corrective action.
• n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
• n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
• n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
• n. A determination of location.
• n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
• v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
• v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
• v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
• v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
• v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
• v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
• v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
• v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

flaw

• n. (obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
• n. (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
• n. A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
• n. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
• n. (law) A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
• v. (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
• v. (intransitive) To become imperfect or defective.
• n. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
• n. A storm of short duration.
• n. A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.

gap

• n. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
• n. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
• n. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
• n. A vacant space or time.
• n. A hiatus.
• n. A mountain or hill pass.
• n. (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
• n. (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
• n. (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will…
• n. (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities…
• n. (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
• v. (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
• v. (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
• v. (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
• n. Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan).

gob

• n. (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
• n. (countable, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
• n. (US, military, slang) A sailor.
• n. (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
• n. (US, regional) A whoopee pie.
• v. To gather into a lump.
• v. To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

hollow

• n. A small valley between mountains.
• n. A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
• n. (US) A sunken area.
• n. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
• v. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate.
• adj. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
• adj. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
• adj. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
• adj. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
• adj. concave; gaunt; sunken.
• adj. (gymnastics) pertaining to hollow body position.
• adv. (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
• v. To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
• interj. Alternative form of hollo.

jam

• n. A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used…
• n. (countable) A difficult situation.
• n. (countable) Blockage, congestion.
• n. (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
• n. (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
• n. (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
• n. (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
• n. (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
• n. (climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
• n. (Britain, slang) luck.
• n. (slang) sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
• v. To get something stuck in a confined space.
• v. To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
• v. To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
• v. To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
• v. (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
• v. (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
• v. To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
• v. (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
• v. (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some joint endeavour; stand up, chicken out, jam out.
• n. (dated) A kind of frock for children.
• n. (mining) Alternative form of jamb.

maw

• n. (archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.
• n. The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and…
• n. Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
• n. Appetite; inclination.
• n. (dialect, colloquial) Mother.
• n. A gull.

mess

• n. (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
• n. (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one…
• n. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel…
• n. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
• n. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
• v. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
• v. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
• v. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
• v. (transitive) To supply with a mess.
• n. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding;…
• n. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
• n. (euphemistic) Excrement.
• v. (transitive) To make a mess of.
• v. (transitive) To throw into confusion.
• v. (intransitive) To interfere.

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

muddle

• v. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
• v. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
• v. To dabble in mud.
• v. To make turbid or muddy.
• v. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
• v. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
• v. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
• n. A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

opening

• v. present participle of open.
• n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
• n. Something that is open.
• n. An act or instance of beginning.
• n. Something that is a beginning.
• n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
• n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
• adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

pickle

• n. A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
• n. (Often in plural: pickles), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
• n. The brine used for preserving food.
• n. A difficult situation, peril.
• n. (affectionate) A mildly mischievous loved one.
• n. (baseball) A rundown.
• n. A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown.
• n. (slang) A penis.
• n. (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
• n. (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc…
• n. In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the…
• v. To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
• v. To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
• v. (programming) (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
• n. (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.).
• n. (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit,…

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

space

• n. (heading) Of time.
• n. (heading) Unlimited or generalized physical extent.
• n. (heading) A bounded or specific physical extent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
• v. (transitive) To set some distance apart.
• v. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
• v. (transitive) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.

trap

• n. A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a…
• n. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
• n. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
• n. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
• n. The game of trapball itself.
• n. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
• n. A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents…
• n. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
• n. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
• n. (slang) A person's mouth.
• n. (in the plural) Belongings.
• n. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
• n. (sports) Trapshooting.
• n. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
• n. (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
• n. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner…
• n. (slang, informal, chiefly derogatory, offensive) A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite.
• n. A kind of movable stepladder.
• n. (music) A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music.
• v. (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a trap.
• v. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.
• v. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
• v. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular, intransitive) To sell narcotics, especially in a public…
• v. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
• n. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap…
• v. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
• n. (slang, bodybuilding) The trapezius muscle.

yap

• n. The high-pitched bark of a small dog.
• n. An informal talk.
• n. The mouth, which produces speech.
• n. (Geordie) A badly behaved child, a brat.
• v. (intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively.
• v. (slang) To rob or steal from someone.