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Cave

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

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Cavern 76% connected

A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

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Cove 76% connected

A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.

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Grot 76% connected

A grotto.

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Grotto 76% connected

A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.

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Broader term 3

Explore 76% connected

To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

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Formation 76% connected

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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Hollow 76% connected

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…

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Manner of action 1

Sap 76% connected

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

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Component part 5

Floor 70% connected

The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

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Roof 70% connected

The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon t…

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Stalactite 70% connected

A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or…

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Stalagmite 70% connected

A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of o…

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Wall 70% connected

A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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Synonym 1

Undermine 92% connected

To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to u…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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