¹drill

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of DRILL

to make a hole or series of holes in <the nerve-jangling sound when a dentist drills a tooth>

Synonyms bore, drill, hole, pierce, punch, puncture, riddle

Related Words broach, tap; poke, prick, prickle; penetrate; burrow (into), excavate, gouge, groove, hollow; break, cut, gash, notch, rend, rupture, slash, slit, split

Near Antonyms fill, patch, plug, seal

to strike with a missile from a gun <drilled the target from 100 yards away>

Synonyms drill, gun, plug, pop

Related Words blow away, bring down, drop, pick off, shoot down; blaze, pepper, potshot, snipe (at); blast (at), fire (at); pistol, shotgun; machine-gun, tommy-gun; croak [slang], destroy, dispatch, do in, fell, ice [slang], kill, slay; annihilate, blot out, butcher, decimate, massacre, slaughter, wipe out

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