EGAVE

mole

About 4.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.
  2. noun Any of several small, burrowing, insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae.
  3. noun Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
  4. noun An internal spy; a person who involves themself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
  5. noun A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines.
  6. noun A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
  7. verb To create a network of channels in (waterlogged soil) to improve drainage.
  8. noun A moll, a bitch, a slut.

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Word family

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