Drill
Drill verb - To make a hole or series of holes in.
How words are described
| old | old drill | old mine |
| common | common drill | common mine |
| complete | complete drill | complete mine |
| single | single drill | single mine |
| Other adjectives: powerful, actual, real, massive, large, huge, magnetic, new, underground, gigantic, impromptu, giant, nuclear, aforementioned, bigger, industrial. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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MARDEK has Drillions, which supposedly use their drill snouts to mine for gems to eat.
Source: Drill Mole - Pasqual Grimpunch is killed by mine-workers he'd been bullying, utilising one of them he'd previously ordered sharpened into a drill.
Source: Radio / Bleak Expectations -
Would you let a man named Hoggish Greedly drill for oil and mine for coal by your home city?
Cite this Source
Mine and Drill. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/drill/mine
Drill & Mine. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/drill/mine>.
Mine or Drill. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/drill/mine.
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