| 单词 | cave |
| 释义 | cave —cavelike, adj. /kayv/, n. , v. , caved, caving. n. 1. a hollow in the earth, esp. one opening more or less horizontally into a hill, mountain, etc. 2. a storage cellar, esp. for wine. 3. Eng. Hist. a secession, or a group of seceders, from a political party on some special question. v.t. 4. to hollow out. 5. Mining. a. to cause (overlying material) to fall into a stope, sublevel, or the like. b. to cause (supports, as stulls or sets) to collapse beneath overlying material. c. to fill (a stope or the like) with caved-in material: sub-level caving. v.i. 6. to cave in. 7. cave in, a. to fall in; collapse. b. to cause to fall in or collapse. c. Informal. to yield; submit; surrender: The opposition caved in before our superior arguments. [1175-1225; ME < OF < LL cava (fem. sing.), L cava, neut. pl. of cavum hole, n. use of neut. of cavus hollow] |
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