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tunnel
[ tuhn-l ]
noun
- an underground passage.
- a passageway, as for trains or automobiles, through or under an obstruction, as a city, mountain, river, harbor, or the like.
- an approximately horizontal gallery or corridor in a mine.
- the burrow of an animal.
- Dialect. a funnel.
verb (used with object)
- to construct a passageway through or under:
to tunnel a mountain.
- to make or excavate (a tunnel or underground passage):
to tunnel a passage under a river.
- to move or proceed by or as if by boring a tunnel:
The river tunneled its way through the mountain.
- to pierce or hollow out, as with tunnels.
verb (used without object)
- to make a tunnel or tunnels:
to tunnel through the Alps.
tunnel
/ ˈʌə /
noun
- an underground passageway, esp one for trains or cars that passes under a mountain, river, or a congested urban area
- any passage or channel through or under something
- a dialect word for funnel
- obsolete.the flue of a chimney
verb
- tr to make or force (a way) through or under (something)
to tunnel a hole in the wall
to tunnel the cliff
- intr; foll by through, under, etc to make or force a way (through or under something)
he tunnelled through the bracken
Derived Forms
- ˈٳܲԲԱ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ٳܲn· especially British, ٳܲn· noun
- ٳܲn· adjective
- ܲ·ٳܲn noun
- ܲ·ٳܲn adjective
- ܲ·ٳܲn adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of tunnel1
Idioms and Phrases
see light at the end of the tunnel .Example Sentences
So, outside of this, you are seeing the government push ahead with some big, long-term investment projects, like road tunnels and runways.
The Israeli military said troops carrying out operations to expand the "security perimeter" in northern and central Gaza had dismantled a 1km-long underground tunnel belonging to Hamas and eliminated more than 50 "terrorists".
The network of tunnels built under Gaza have a similarly adaptive purpose, Loubani said, well beyond their military or strategic use by Hamas fighters.
National Highways has promised that 80% of the crossing will run through either a tunnel, cutting or embankment to blend it into the landscape.
New offences were created including interfering with national infrastructure, "locking on" – chaining or gluing yourself to something – and tunnelling underground.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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