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tunnel
[ tuhn-l ]
noun
- an underground passage.
- a passageway, as for trains or automobiles, through or under an obstruction, as a city, mountain, river, harbor, or the like.
- an approximately horizontal gallery or corridor in a mine.
- the burrow of an animal.
- Dialect. a funnel.
verb (used with object)
- to construct a passageway through or under:
to tunnel a mountain.
- to make or excavate (a tunnel or underground passage):
to tunnel a passage under a river.
- to move or proceed by or as if by boring a tunnel:
The river tunneled its way through the mountain.
- to pierce or hollow out, as with tunnels.
verb (used without object)
- to make a tunnel or tunnels:
to tunnel through the Alps.
tunnel
/ ˈʌə /
noun
- an underground passageway, esp one for trains or cars that passes under a mountain, river, or a congested urban area
- any passage or channel through or under something
- a dialect word for funnel
- obsolete.the flue of a chimney
verb
- tr to make or force (a way) through or under (something)
to tunnel a hole in the wall
to tunnel the cliff
- intr; foll by through, under, etc to make or force a way (through or under something)
he tunnelled through the bracken
Derived Forms
- ˈٳܲԲԱ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ٳܲn· especially British, ٳܲn· noun
- ٳܲn· adjective
- ܲ·ٳܲn noun
- ܲ·ٳܲn adjective
- ܲ·ٳܲn adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tunnel1
Idioms and Phrases
see light at the end of the tunnel .Example Sentences
The cliff walk, made up of a series of bridges, paths and tunnels, had fallen into disrepair by the 1950s but a £7.5m investment saw it open again in 2015.
As he turns 48, somewhere in the tunnels of Gaza, Lishay will be writing again, with tales of two daughters who were still babies when he last saw them.
TV entertainment formats enable President Trump to continue to set the agenda and direct the focus rather than shifting format and allocating time to escape the media tunnel focus on Trump.
But thankfully, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel: tax refunds.
This is an attraction, from the queue to its ending, of constant reveals — tunnels give way to gorgeous atriums, and each set piece aims to be larger, more lively than the last.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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