Spelunk

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  • noun. A cave, cavern or grotto.
  • verb. To explore caves.
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  • verb. explore natural caves
  • Word Usage
    "From Jordan Scott: “Having stuttered all of my life, blert represents a spelunk into the mouth of the stutterer, a trek across labial regions, a repel through the stalagmites of molars and canines, a lexical navigation into the cavernous poetics of what it means to stutter.”"
    Form
    spelunker  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    explore  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Funk  Monk  blunk  bunk  chunk  
    suggests
    slunk  spunk  
    verb-form