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Synonyms for cave
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  1. caveverb

    a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea

  2. cave, undermineverb

    hollow out as if making a cave or opening

    "The river was caving the banks"

    Synonyms:
    subvert, undermine, spelunk, countermine, sabotage, weaken, counteract

  3. cave, spelunkverb

    explore natural caves

    Synonyms:
    undermine, spelunk

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  1. cavenoun

    Synonyms:
    cavern, den, grotto

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  1. cavenoun

    Synonyms:
    cavern, grotto, grot, den, catacomb, crypt

    Associated words:
    speleology, spelean, stalactite, stalagmite, cavernicolous, troglodytic, caverned, cavernous

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "cave":

    cavern, grotto, cellar, basement, cueva, cava, cave-in, al-haram, tavern, caveman

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  1. List of known nicknames for "Cave":

    DJ Cave, Inge Kjeilen, Crve

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How to use cave in a sentence?

  1. Lee Berger:

    The discovery of a single skull of a child, in such a remote location within the cave system adds mystery as to how these many remains came to be in these remote, dark spaces of the Rising Star Cave system, it is just another riddle among many that surround this fascinating extinct human relative.

  2. Fox News:

    [H]e can’t cave because that would be the right thing. These truckers have a legitimate claim, and I want to go back to what I just said. When these truckers were out there when there was no vaccine like the firefighters, like the first responders, like the police officers, like the nurses, look how they’ve treated them now. They’re throwing them under the bus. They are throwing all of these people who risk their lives to help us now under the bus because it does not fit their agenda.

  3. Josh Hawley:

    When your ‘agenda’ is cave to Big Pharma on insulin, cave to Schumer on gun control Green New Deal ('infrastructure'), and tease changes to Social Security and Medicare, you lose.

  4. Dilia Rosa Gelis:

    We dont have water. We dont have lights, how am I supposed to see in this cave where I live ? Im desperate.

  5. Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Ninth, Chapter 2:

    She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.


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