Meaning

5 senses
  1. (transitive)To make holes in (an object or surface).

    Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.

    lochen

    дыря́витьdyrjávitʹ, продыря́витьprodyrjávitʹ, продырявливатьprodyrjávlivat'

    дірявтиdirjavty, дзюра́витиdzjurávyty, продзюра́влюватиprodzjurávljuvaty

    make holes in

  2. (broadly, transitive)To destroy.

    She completely holed the argument.

  3. (intransitive)To go into a hole.

    hit the ball into the hole

  4. (transitive)To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

    Woods holed a standard three foot putt

  5. (transitive)To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

    to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

Examples

743 sentences
  1. The hole is about five feet across.

    Дірка близько 5 футів у діаметрі. — uaspeaker

    ruДырка около 5 футов в диаметре. — timsa

    deDas Loch hat einen Durchmesser von circa anderthalb Metern. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. I can't find any holes in his theory.

    Я не можу знайти дірок в його теорії. — aandrusiak

  3. The hole is big enough.

    Дірка достатньо велика. — deniko

    ruОтверстие достаточно большое. — odexed

    deDas Loch ist groß genug. — Esperantostern

  4. The dog was digging a hole.

    Собака рив яму. — deniko

    ruСобака рыла ямку. — paul_lingvo

    deDer Hund grub ein Loch. — samueldora

  5. There's a hole in this sock.

    У цій шкарпетці дірка. — deniko

    ruВ этом носке дыра. — Hellerick

    deDiese Socke hat ein Loch. — MUIRIEL

Translations

5 languages
Українська
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Русский
By meaning 1
make holes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
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Origin

Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cav

Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol (“hole”), from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.

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Forms

holes, holing, holed, holed
Base formhole · to hole
3rd person singularholes
Present participleholing
Past simpleholed
Past participleholed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhole
he, she, itholes

Past simpleLesson

all personsholed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave holed
he, she, ithas holed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hole

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

Collocations

10 patterns
  • a hole in
  • hole in the
  • hole in his
  • bullet holes
  • bullet hole in
  • through the hole
  • hole in my
  • there's a hole
  • hole in your
  • the hole in

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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