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hole up

hole up verb: to go into a hole, to shelter in a hole.

Verb

hole up (third-person singular simple present holes up, present participle holing up, simple past and past participle holed up)

  1. (intransitive) To go into a hole, to shelter in a hole.
    • In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan bears enter winter dens in October; in the South, later; even in Florida bears “hole up” during the coldest weather.1998, John Whitaker, William Hamilton, Mammals of the Eastern United States, page 424
  2. (intransitive) To hide.
    • The guerrillas holed up in a small cave.
    • The battle ended a two-day siege of an apartment block, where the suspects were holed up.2005, BBC News, Thursday, 27 January, 2005, 18:50 GMThttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4211625.stm

hole up meaning in Malayalam

hole up in Malayalam

hibernate, lie dormant
അർദ്ധസുഷുപ്തിയിലാകുക, ഹിമകാലം നിദ്രയിൽ കഴിച്ചുകൂട്ടുക, നിദ്രപൂകുക, നിഷ്ക്രിയമാകുക
conceal oneself, hide (out), secrete oneself
ഒളിവിൽ താമസിക്കുക, മാളത്തിലൊളിക്കുക, ഒളിക്കുക, പാർക്കുക, പതുങ്ങിയിരിക്കുക, പാക്കുക

Forms of hole up

third-person singular presentholes up
present participleholing up
past participleholed up
pastholed up

Origin of hole up

From hole + up. Attested from the 19th century.

Questions about hole up

What does hole up mean?
Hole up means to go into a hole, to shelter in a hole.
What is hole up in Malayalam?
Hole up in Malayalam is അർദ്ധസുഷുപ്തിയിലാകുക, ഹിമകാലം നിദ്രയിൽ കഴിച്ചുകൂട്ടുക, നിദ്രപൂകുക. See Hole up meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is hole up?
Hole up is a verb.
What is the past tense of hole up?
The past tense of hole up is holed up.

Words near hole up in the dictionary

  1. hole punching
  2. hole saw
  3. hole saws
  4. hole state
  5. hole states
  6. hole up
  7. hole-and-corner
  8. hole-board test
  9. hole-board tests
  10. hole-in-the-wall
  11. hole-in-the-walls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hole up (page history and authors); hole up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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