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单词 hole up
释义 hole up
intransitive verb
1. : to take refuge or shelter in a hole or cave or as if in one : seek protection
 < gone upstate to where her people were … figured on holing up with them for a while until she got over being afraid — R.F.Mirvish >
 < holed up in caves until they were blasted out by tommy gun and dynamite — Newsweek >
2. : to go into hiding
 < breaks jail and holes up in an isolated turkey ranch — Newsweek >
 < badmen who holed up in badlands where others dared not venture — Ford Times >
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to place in or as if in a refuge, a shelter, or a hiding place
  < during the wartime absence of her husband … she was holed up with two small sons on a farm — New Yorker >
 b. : imprison
  < the gunman holed them up in the house for two days >
2. : to hold up or delay especially for a long time
 < housing legislation is holed up in a Senate committee — Time >
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