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cave
  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.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “Ironically, the first archaeologist to explore the cave had a connection to the most legendary fictional explorer.”
caveman
  1. An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.
  2. (pejorative) A brutish or savage person.
  3. (pejorative) A man with old fashioned or backward opinions, particularly with regard to women.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Some people think that these are decorative drawings by a caveman idling away his long winter hours.”
      “You look at me like I'm some kind of uncouth caveman slobbering over a leg of turkey.”
      “Tom got into a drunken caveman style fight and started lunging at one of our new friends, Gregor.”
caver
  1. (colloquial) A person who explores caves; a spelunker.
  2. (mining, obsolete) One who works the tailings of a mine to extract small pieces of marketable ore.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The experienced caver and climber died a few hours later while potholing, plunging 70 feet to her death.”
      “A manchester caver is trying to achieve the potholer's ultimate challenge by going deeper underground than anyone has been before.”
      “Crawlways run as straight as dark directional lines, meeting others in mazy routes that confuse even the most observant caver.”
caving
  1. The recreational sport of exploring caves.
  2. An act of collapsing or caving in.
caveperson
  1. (humorous) A caveman or cavewoman.
cavemouth
  1. The mouth or entrance of a cave.
cavewoman
  1. A female cave dweller
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She told me I was a warrior, and that if I were a cavewoman, I would be the one to kill the wild boar.”
      “People have probably been turned on by this sort of thing since the first caveman saw the first cavewoman eat the first carbonated dinosaur.”
      “I was no longer going to look like a prehistoric cavewoman holed up in her room because of Z. No, I wouldn't even think about him.”
cavemate
  1. One who shares the same cave.
cavepeople
  1. plural of caveperson
cavepersons
  1. plural of caveperson
cavewomen
  1. plural of cavewoman
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Men in the tribes would gather around a fire to watch loose cavewomen remove their filthy animal hides from their smelly, unshaven bodies.”
      “It also has something to do with cavewomen who would chew meat up and pass it into their children's mouths to feed them.”
      “The creators of this nutrition plan believe that cavemen and cavewomen were lean and healthy because of the all-natural foods they ate.”
cavemouths
  1. plural of cavemouth
cavemates
  1. plural of cavemate
  2. Examples:
    1. “The successful bats have been found to regurgitate blood for their unsuccessful cavemates.”
cavemen
  1. plural of caveman
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I don't know how good they taste, but cavemen hunted mammoth, so I'm guessing much of an elephant is edible.”
      “We also have drawings in caves from the earliest cavemen showing various animal drawings in detail with unidentified flying objects above them.”
      “What's more critical in the comparison between cavemen and today's bodybuilders are the types of foods and ratio of macronutrients consumed.”
cavings
  1. plural of caving
cavers
  1. plural of caver
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The injured man was with a group of cavers who were going through a system using ropes.”
      “Two cavers were saved last night after being trapped by flood water at Kingsdale master cave, near Ingleton, North Yorkshire.”
      “One or more ascenders hold the cavers weight while the unweighted ascender is moved up the rope.”
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