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Bore
verb · 78% connection
To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intervenes, space, things, closely, parts.
Burrow
verb · 78% connection
To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.
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Chap
noun · 78% connection
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
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Check
verb · 78% connection
To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
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Chine
noun · 78% connection
A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
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Chip
verb · 78% connection
To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
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Cleft
noun · 78% connection
A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock.
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Clift
noun · 78% connection
A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
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Compact
verb · 78% connection
To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.
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Countersink
verb · 78% connection
To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below…
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Crack
noun · 78% connection
A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in t…
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Cranny
noun · 78% connection
A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
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Crevice
noun · 78% connection
A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
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Crowd
verb · 78% connection
A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
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Cyclorama
noun · 78% connection
A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature.…
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Defile
noun · 78% connection
Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks…
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Filling
noun · 78% connection
That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression i…
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Hardy
noun · 78% connection
A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
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