Holed

/hoʊld/ verb

Definition

Made a hole in something, or became stuck in a hole with no escape.

Etymology

From Old English 'hol' meaning cavity or hollow space. The verb form 'hole' developed by the 12th century, and 'holed' is its past tense, originally describing the action of digging or creating an opening.

Kelly Says

In golf, 'holed' means sinking your ball in the cup, but the same word describes both tiny holes (holed out in one shot) and catastrophic ones (the ship was holed below the waterline)—showing how English uses one word for vastly different scales.

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