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▸ noun: A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
▸ noun: A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
▸ noun: A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
▸ noun: (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
▸ noun: (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
▸ noun: (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
▸ noun: (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
▸ noun: (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
▸ noun: (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
▸ noun: (programming) A code cave.
▸ verb: (figurative) To surrender.
▸ verb: To collapse.
▸ verb: To hollow out or undermine.
▸ verb: To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
▸ verb: (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
▸ verb: (mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
▸ noun: The 18th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: A place name:
▸ noun: A town and comune in Lazio, Italy.
▸ noun: A village in Lincoln County, Missouri, United States.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States.
▸ noun: A settlement in Timaru district, Canterbury, New Zealand.
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limestone cave,
lavtube cave,
secave,
ice cave,
solution cave,
talus cave,
sandstone cave,
granite cave,
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