Cave - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |keɪv|  American pronunciation of the word cave
Brit.  |keɪv|  British pronunciation of the word cave

noun

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

verb

- hollow out as if making a cave or opening (syn: undermine)
- explore natural caves

Extra examples

...Kentucky's Mammoth Cave is actually a series of large chambers on five levels....

The walls of the cave are covered with drawings of human and animal figures.

...the absurd notion that early cave dwellers were contemporary with the dinosaurs...

...you'll come with us into the cave, unless you're yellow...

A cave sheltered the climbers during the storm.

They sheltered in a cave while they waited for the storm to pass.

...a desperate cry echoing from the abysmal reaches of the cave...

...we could see inside the cave even without a flashlight because of the luminescence coming from some of the fungus on the walls...

We entered the cave through a narrow aperture.

This cave echoes back every word you speak.

She enchanted the cave so that nobody should ever find the treasures.

Deeper in the cave, darkness enfolds us.

The miners were entombed in the cave when the roof fell in.

The cave reverberated with the cries of birds.

The cave is very narrow ahead, but we should be able to skin through.

Phrasal verbs

cave in  — the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: cave
he/she/it: caves
present participle: caving
past tense: caved
past participle: caved
noun
singular: cave
plural: caves
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