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What does cave mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cave? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground, or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
  2. A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
  3. A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
  4. A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
  5. (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
  6. (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
  7. (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
  8. (politics) A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
  9. (obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
Verb
  1. To surrender.
  2. To collapse.
  3. To hollow out or undermine.
  4. To engage in the recreational exploration of caves; to spelunk.
  5. (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
  6. (mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
  7. (obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
Interjection
  1. (Britain, school slang) look out!; beware!
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