n. 25B6; noun
a hole in the roof : OPENING, aperture, gap, space, orifice, vent, chink, breach; crack, leak, rift, rupture; puncture, perforation, cut, split, gash, slit, crevice, fissure.
a hole in the ground : PIT, ditch, trench, cavity, crater, depression, hollow; well, borehole, excavation, dugout; cave, cavern, pothole.
the badger's hole : BURROW, lair, den, earth, sett; retreat, shelter.
there are holes in their argument : FLAW, fault, defect, weakness, shortcoming, inconsistency, discrepancy, loophole; error, mistake.
(informal) I was living in a real hole : HOVEL, slum, shack, mess; informal dump, dive, pigsty, tip.
(informal) they steal when they are in a hole : PREDICAMENT, difficult situation, awkward situation, (tight) corner, quandary, dilemma; crisis, emergency, difficulty, trouble, plight, dire straits; informal fix, jam, bind, (tight) spot, pickle, sticky situation, hot water; Brit. informal spot of bother.
25B6; verb a fuel tank was holed by the attack : PUNCTURE, perforate, pierce, penetrate, rupture, split, rent, lacerate, gash.
25A0; hole up
the bears hole up in winter : HIBERNATE, lie dormant.
(informal) the snipers holed up in a farmhouse : HIDE (OUT), conceal oneself, secrete oneself, shelter, take cover, lie low, go to ground, go to earth; Brit. informal, dated lie doggo.
25A0; pick holes in (informal) . See criticize .