hole
/hoʊl/ verb C2- To 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.
- To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball. · Woods holed a standard three foot putt
- To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in. · to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
He/she/it holes · Past holed · Past participle holed · -ing form holing
Verb forms
- Base form
- hole
- He/she/it
- holes
- Past
- holed
- Past participle
- holed
- -ing form
- holing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
In the turf a hole I found
Then my hole shall reappear.
Down the Rabbit-Hole
I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually _took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket_, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
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