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单词 cave-dwellers
释义

cave1 /kāv/

noun
  1. A hollow in a rock, a cliff or underground
  2. A small faction of seceders from a political party (from the Cave of Adullam in Bible, 1 Samuel 22.1–2)
  3. The ash-pit under the furnace in glassworks
transitive verb

To hollow out

intransitive verb

To inhabit a cave

ORIGIN: Fr cave, from L cavus hollow

caˈver noun

A person who explores caves

caˈving noun

The sport or pastime of cave-exploration

caveˈ-bear noun

(Ursus spelaeus) a bear of the Pleistocene epoch of which fossil remains have been found in caves

caveˈ-dweller noun

A person who lives in a cave, esp one of the Stone Age people of prehistoric times

caveˈ-earth noun

A fine deposit on cave floors

caveˈfish noun (pl caveˈfish or caveˈfishes)

Any of various small freshwater fishes of the Ambyopsidae family with reduced or absent eyes, living in subterranean waters in N America

cave-in see cave in below.

caveˈman noun

  1. A cave-dweller
  2. A modern male of primitive and chauvinistic attitudes and ways (informal)

cave in

  1. To slip, to subside, to collapse inwards (caveˈ-in noun)
  2. To yield to outside pressure, to give way, to collapse (figurative)

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