loophole
/ˈluphoʊl/ verb C2- To prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers
- To exploit (a law, etc.) by means of loopholes.
He/she/it loopholes · Past loopholed · Past participle loopholed · -ing form loopholing
Verb forms
- Base form
- loophole
- He/she/it
- loopholes
- Past
- loopholed
- Past participle
- loopholed
- -ing form
- loopholing
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The wall of which he spoke was the one in which was fixed the loophole by which light was admitted to the chamber.
This loophole, which gradually diminished in size as it approached the outside, to an opening through which a child could not have passed, was, for better security, furnished with three iron bars, so as to quiet all apprehensions even in the mind of the most suspicious jailer as to the possibility of a prisoner’s escape.
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