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drill

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"Practice exercise"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /dɹɪl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted dillrStarts with DEnds with L1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons

Word origin

From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).

Used in a sentence

  • Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
  • They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
  • On his return the team that faced Hull City had been reconfigured. Moses wasn’t overly drilled, just told he would be playing right wing-back, that Conte had seen enough to know.

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