Flaw and Hole

Flaw

Flaw noun - Something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing.

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Hole and flaw are semantically related In some cases you can use "Hole" instead a noun "Flaw".

Nearby Words: flawed, flawless, flawlessly

Hole noun - A fault.

Usage example: he shot holes in my argument

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Flaw and hole are semantically related in fault topic. Sometimes you can use "Flaw" instead a noun "Hole".

Nearby Words: holed, holey, holer, holing

human	human flaw	human hole
particular	particular flaw	particular hole
single	single flaw	single hole
deep	deep flaw	deep hole
Other adjectives: glaring, obvious, small, actual, real, massive, large, big, great, huge, little, tiny, slight, noticeable, new, major, possible, minor, significant, gaping, biggest.

Donnie corrected the flaw in the branch universe, preventing it from turning into a black hole, and effectively saving the prime universe.

Source: Film / Donnie Darko
Even then, the hull-mounted auxiliary machinegun managed to linger on through World War II, but eventually by the end of the Korean War it was realized that drilling a hole into the front armor protecting a tank to stick a machinegun in was an avoidable design flaw.

Source: Awesome But Impractical / Military
Informed Flaw / Plot Hole: The story says Garfield has to eat every two minutes or he dies, but for the rest of the story he goes through at least ten minutes' worth of crap with no repurcussions.

Source: Fanfic / Garfield in: "Along Came a Splut"

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