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Hole Place Holed Refer Emphasizing Unpleasant Leave Awful

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If you refer to a place as a h___, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unpleasant .If you refer to a place as a hole, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unpleasant .
Why don't you leave this awful hole and come to live with me?
word hole
full-definition
noun
A hole is a hollow space in something solid, with an opening on one side.
He took a shovel, dug a hole, and buried his once-prized possessions.
The builders had cut holes into the soft stone to support the ends of the beams.
...a 60ft hole.
A hole is an opening in something that goes right through it.
These tiresome creatures eat holes in the leaves.
Armed robbers broke into the jeweller's through a hole in the wall.
...kids with holes in the knees of their jeans.
A hole is the home or hiding place of a mouse, rabbit, or other small animal.
...a rabbit hole.
A hole in a law, theory, or argument is a fault or weakness that it has.
There were some holes in that theory, some unanswered questions.
If you refer to a place as a hole, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unpleasant .
Why don't you leave this awful hole and come to live with me?
A hole is also one of the nine or eighteen sections of a golf course.
I played nine holes with Gary today.
A hole is one of the places on a golf course that the ball must drop into, usually marked by a flag .
verb
If you hole in a game of golf, you hit the ball so that it goes into the hole.
He holed from nine feet at the 18th.
Frost holed a bunker shot from 50 feet to snatch the title by one stroke.
If something such as a building or ship is holed, holes are made in it by guns or other weapons .
Blocks of flats have been holed and some shells have fallen within the historic ramparts.
inflections holesholingholed
cefr-level A2

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