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How to pronounce hole
Say it like this: /hoʊl/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does hole mean?
nounA hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
“I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.”
An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
“There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.”
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 pr
verbTo make holes in (an object or surface).
“Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.”
To destroy.
“She completely holed the argument.”
To go into a hole.
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