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opening
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of OPENING
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a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing <an opening in the roof is letting rain drip inside>
Related Words loophole; breach, break, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, fissure, gash, notch, rent, rift, rupture, slash, slit, split, tear; slot, space; exit, mouth, outlet, pore, vent; entrance, inlet, intake; pinhole, pinprick, punch, puncture; airhole, armhole, buttonhole, keyhole, knothole, peephole, pothole, wormhole
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an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge) <the rabbit found a little opening in the bushes and darted through>
Synonyms breach, break, discontinuity, gulf, hiatus, hole, interstice, interval, opening, rent, rift, separation, void
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