caving

Meaning of caving

verb
  1. To surrender.
    He caved under pressure.
  2. To collapse.
    First the braces buckled, then the roof began to cave, then we ran.
  3. To hollow out or undermine.
    The levee has been severely caved by the river current.
  4. To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
    I have caved from Yugoslavia to Kentucky.
  5. In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
    The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts.
  6. To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
  7. To dwell in a cave.
noun
  1. The recreational sport of exploring caves.
  2. An act of collapsing or caving in.

Information about caving

  • The plural form of caving is: cavings.
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Hyphenation of caving

cav-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • caving is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

caving synonyms

Meaning :

spelunk

Words that rhyme with caving

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