The soldier took shelter in the foxhole.
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Foxhole
Synonyms for "foxhole" (81 found)
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42 translations across 19 languages.
Belarusian
3 entries- ако́п noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
- роў noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
- траншэ́я noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
Bulgarian
1 entries- и́зкоп noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
Danish
1 entries- rævegrav noun (fox's burrow)
Dutch
2 entries- schuttersputje noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
- vossenhol noun (fox's burrow)
Finnish
2 entries- ketunkolo noun (fox's burrow)
- potero noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
French
3 entries- renardière noun (fox's burrow)
- tranchée noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
- trou de tirailleur noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
German
1 entries- Fuchsbau noun (fox's burrow)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰 noun (fox's burrow)
Hungarian
1 entries- rókalyuk noun (fox's burrow)
Japanese
2 entries- 狐塚 noun (fox's burrow)
- 蛸壷 noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
Macedonian
4 entries- и́скоп noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
- лиси́чина ду́пка noun (fox's burrow)
- о́коп noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
- ров noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- revehi noun (fox's burrow)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- revehi noun (fox's burrow)
Old English
1 entries- foxhol noun (fox's burrow)
Polish
3 entries- lisia nora noun (fox's burrow)
- okop noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
- rów noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
Russian
4 entries- ли́сья нора́ noun (fox's burrow)
- око́п noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
- ров noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
- транше́я noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
Spanish
2 entries- trinchera noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
- zorrera noun (fox's burrow)
Swedish
1 entries- rävgryt noun (fox's burrow)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ли́сяча нора́ noun (fox's burrow)
- лиси́ча нора́ noun (fox's burrow)
- око́п noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
- окі́п noun (small pit dug into the ground as a shelter)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The statement made during the Second World War that “there are no atheists in foxholes” is absurd. Foxholes teem with atheists—who, to be sure, frequently infringe the Third Commandment in their desperation.
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Four pilots from the St. Lo, returning from a strike, land at the Dulag Airstrip and are promptly handed carbines, given a foxhole, and told to help repel a Japanese infantry counterattack. With that job done, with the aid of some stacked boxes and buckets full of petrol, they rearm and repair their aircraft, and then head back out to land on other ships.
Source: wiktionary
Trogh and Charlie have started foxholing one corner of our tent, and I helped them a little.
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