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socket
noun as in cavity
noun as in chamber
noun as in hollow
noun as in pocket
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in recess
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Autumn’s eyes almost pop out of their sockets.
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In the smooth socket where the head had just been was another button.
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“Plug sockets used to blow because the water had gotten into them.”
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The skull has an enormous eye socket and a long sword-like snout that it used to eat fish and squid.
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Once replaced in the eye socket, T. Ocellus takes over the ocular pathways to the brain, overriding the neurotransmissions throughout the body.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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