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anthill

[ ant-hil ]

noun

  1. a mound of earth, leaves, etc., formed by a colony of ants in digging or constructing their underground nest.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of anthill1

1250–1300; Middle English amete hulle, ampte hille; ant, hill
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But Oloya could not resist walking by an anthill without scooping some of the fresh, soft clay from it and creating a ball for a slingshot or something else from it.

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The position is so vast and covered in trenches, bunkers and tunnels that some parts have been compared to an anthill.

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Begay Sr. uses a walking stick to wind past pockets of yellow flowers, heavily trafficked anthills and the occasional prickly pear.

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And then fire threatens his family and all those issues become anthills in comparison to surviving this night.

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In Staromaiorske, Russian soldiers dug bunkers underneath the village’s houses with multiple exits so a house would erupt like an anthill when under attack, said Dikyi, the Ukrainian commander.

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