Definition of pothole in English:

pothole

noun ˈpɒthəʊlˈpɑtˌhoʊl

1A deep natural underground cave formed by the erosion of rock, especially by the action of water.
（尤指岩石受水侵蚀而形成的天然）锅穴，壶穴
Example sentencesExamples
- Some rocky and steep-sided dolines and potholes have been enlarged by progressive collapse of the limestone and retreat of their exposed rock walls.
- Back-wrenching potholes get deeper and wider.
- Bats spend the summer living in trees and buildings, and retreat to caves and potholes in winter, to hibernate.
- He named the Channeled Scablands, with its catastrophically water-carved coulees, dry waterfalls, potholes and huge erratic boulders.
- Certainly there are potholes in the lake which mean it is 100 ft deep in places, so there is always winter-cold water below the surface, however hot the day.
- The second feature is a deep cave or pothole on Wet Rain Hill, just above Liz's Burn, called Bell Hollow.
- A prehistoric occupation site was discovered at the bottom of a hollow some 600 sq. m. in area, resulting from the collapse of an underground pothole.
- The dark hole near Pwll Fanogl, believed by some to be a massive pothole in the limestone, is nearly 30m deep.
- During the hectic work schedule it was hoped they would visit the deepest pothole in Asia, the Ghar Parau, discovered by an English expedition in 1971 which reached 751 metres deep.
- Structurally dominated by a small geological fault, it is a cave that typifies the best of Yorkshire potholes: wet, deep, vertical, and culminating in one of the finest shafts in the country.
- The Bulgarian team investigated, explored and made maps of nine caves and potholes, all of them 4km long.
- They have just spent four weeks in the Guilin area - close to the Vietnam border - investigating local potholes with a view to identifying a potential show cave.
Synonyms
cave, cavern, cavity, hollow, recess, alcove
1. 1.1 A deep circular hole in a riverbed formed by the erosion of the rock by the rotation of stones in an eddy.
  河床涡穴
  Example sentencesExamples
  Balanced on a log suspended over a glacial pothole, she is searching the foot-deep water for endangered howellia and their delicate white florets no bigger than her baby finger.
  Small potholes may hold water long enough for crabs to molt, but not to undergo larval development.
  Some environmental activists yesterday inspect the Nuanjiang section of the Keelung River, where geologically unique potholes are to be found.
  They inhabit swift streams, the backwaters of large rivers, brackish lagoons, and potholes.
2. 1.2North American A pond formed by a natural hollow in the ground in which water has collected.
  〈北美〉天然池塘
  upstream were potholes from the recent rains where a pair of herons stood
  Example sentencesExamples
  Prairie potholes are natural depressions that can be a fifth of an acre up to 500 acres in size.
  The valley is wet, the high benches are pocked with pothole lakes, springs, and ponds, and mastodons browse along a braided watercourse snaking across the bottomland at the foot of the cliff.
  The sedge meadow community graded into bluejoint-muhly grass wet prairie along its drier boundaries and prairie pothole marsh where water was deeper.
  In the prairie pothole region of the United States, blackbirds damage ripening sunflower crops.
  The refuge's north unit contains the 8,700-acre Medicine Lake, eight smaller lakes, and numerous pothole wetlands.
  The rolling hills of northern Wisconsin's glacial kettle moraine are densely forested with hardwoods, birch and aspen and pitted with potholes and lakes.
  Waterfowl were available in the larger river valleys, and they are common at prairie potholes.
2A depression or hollow in a road surface caused by wear or subsidence.
（因磨损或下陷而形成的）路面凹坑
he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road
Example sentencesExamples
- The entire road is a pothole - a red-earth track with occasional rafts of Tarmac which drivers avoid at all costs for fear of wrecking their suspension.
- Pedestrians aren't exactly better off, for they are the ones who get splashed with muddy water every time a vehicle lurches into a pothole.
- I settled back into my seat as much as I could as we rolled over the various rocks, potholes, and ruts in the road.
- The 4x4 can much more easily deal with his potholes and appalling road surfaces.
- He said that after an assessment has been made, some potholes were usually repaired within 24 hours, but deeper holes could take two or three days or sometimes up to a week.
- The front right wheel clattered through a deep pothole filled with dark rain water which splashed up, showering the front of the van.
- Huge potholes mar the surface, only half the road per se is motorable, there is no system of demarcated drains and the entire stretch is one filthy mess.
- The approach roads are full of potholes and the main road leading to Hoshiarpur is in a bad shape.
- Pavements cracked, potholes grew, water and service charges were imposed and the row over the funding of local authorities has raged ever since.
- We had to pass several stretches of road that had deep potholes filled with murky water and big stones.
- The highway developed large potholes and irregular bumps and hollows.
- The roads have large potholes, road calming humps, roundabouts and other obstacles.
- Tar is soluble in fossil fuels like diesel and petrol and oil spill loosens the road surface and potholes begin to form.
- Drivers were left stranded, surrounded by water, while other cars became stuck in potholes caused by the heavy rain.
- New white lines will be painted, potholes repaired and underground gulleys will be cleared to improve drainage.
- The regular replacement of cracked paving stones and filling-in of potholes is one of the things your council tax buys you.
- He said the council had put stones into the potholes a few weeks ago and they had already been washed away by the rains.
- The road wears the usual spring potholes, but the new (very expensive) upper road is holding up well.
- The plan may also establish a target of repairing potholes in roads of this type within a fortnight of the council becoming aware of the problem.
- Our roads are full of potholes and irregular surfacing.
Synonyms
wheel track, furrow, groove, track, trough, ditch, trench, gutter, gouge, crack, hollow, hole, cavity, crater

verb ˈpɒthəʊl

[no object]often as noun potholingBritish

Explore underground potholes as a pastime.
〈英〉（为消遣而）探索洞穴
they went potholing in the Pennines
他们在奔宁山探索地洞。
Example sentencesExamples
- Teams must navigate the course with map and compass and cover it through a prescribed combination of kayaking, mountain biking, trekking, climbing, horse riding and potholing.
- La Cueva del Gato is a popular site with the European potholing community.
- The alarm was raised by the man's potholing colleague shortly after 3pm when the pair became separated at Diccan Pot in Ribblesdale.
- We hiked, swam, climbed, potholed, abseiled, ran, jumped, fell in, fell over and camped on most of Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland during my time with the association.
- And last night, a member of the same potholing club said the so-called crisis had not presented the cavers with anything they would not have been prepared for.
- I was very impressed with this Yorkshire potholing, but my ladder climbing was abysmal and it took me more than half an hour to be dragged up the 91m daylight pitch of Long Kin West.
- Try some extreme sports - skydiving, rock climbing, potholing, ballooning, motor racing the list is endless.
- Of course you always get one like him, the guy who'd done the caves the hard way by potholing, umpteen years ago, and wanted to let everyone know.
- The kids were packed off to the campsite and spent the day rock climbing, clay shooting, potholing, go-karting.
- The sign points out the dangers of approaching too close to Bell Hollow, and strongly advises against using the cave for potholing explorations.
- After a date with a woman who enjoyed potholing and had a moustache, and one other appalling mismatch, I never used them again.
- The experienced caver and climber died a few hours later while potholing, plunging 70 feet to her death.
Synonyms
make holes in, make hollows in, hole, dent, indent, depress, dint, pothole

Derivatives

potholed

adjective

Miscarraiges, dislocated shoulders, broken bones, damaged axels there is enough reason for people to be concerned over the city's potholed roads.
Example sentencesExamples
- Down with the government, all chorused; and waved flags and banners, as we marched in twos and threes across broken pavements and potholed roads.
- And as a result of all the growth, plush restaurants have popped up beside the potholed roads and property prices have shot up, especially for trendy condominiums.
- Thankfully someone had the bright idea to water down the dusty potholed road between Laborie and Piaye.
- How often do we, the hard-pressed citizens, ponder this topic as we bump along potholed roads or survey the latest round of digging up along our main streets?

potholer

noun ˈpɒthəʊləˈpɑthoʊlər

We may ask potholers to establish a voluntary code of practice, such as not going in at dusk, when they may disturb the bats leaving the cave.
Example sentencesExamples
- A manchester caver is trying to achieve the potholer's ultimate challenge by going deeper underground than anyone has been before.
- Earby potholers made a return visit to Pikedaw caves, between Settle and Malham, to continue their exploration of a previously undiscovered hole.
- There was a four-day intensive course at headquarters in Birkenshaw, run by instructors who are experienced climbers and potholers.
- The final call out of the year had been five minutes before midnight on New Year's Eve from potholers intending to see in the new year underground.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Middle English pot 'pit' (perhaps of Scandinavian origin) + hole.

Rhymes

knothole

Definition of pothole in US English:

pothole

nounˈpɑtˌhoʊlˈpätˌhōl

1A deep natural underground cavity formed by the erosion of rock, especially by the action of water.
（尤指岩石受水侵蚀而形成的天然）锅穴，壶穴
Example sentencesExamples
- Back-wrenching potholes get deeper and wider.
- The dark hole near Pwll Fanogl, believed by some to be a massive pothole in the limestone, is nearly 30m deep.
- The Bulgarian team investigated, explored and made maps of nine caves and potholes, all of them 4km long.
- He named the Channeled Scablands, with its catastrophically water-carved coulees, dry waterfalls, potholes and huge erratic boulders.
- They have just spent four weeks in the Guilin area - close to the Vietnam border - investigating local potholes with a view to identifying a potential show cave.
- Some rocky and steep-sided dolines and potholes have been enlarged by progressive collapse of the limestone and retreat of their exposed rock walls.
- During the hectic work schedule it was hoped they would visit the deepest pothole in Asia, the Ghar Parau, discovered by an English expedition in 1971 which reached 751 metres deep.
- Bats spend the summer living in trees and buildings, and retreat to caves and potholes in winter, to hibernate.
- A prehistoric occupation site was discovered at the bottom of a hollow some 600 sq. m. in area, resulting from the collapse of an underground pothole.
- The second feature is a deep cave or pothole on Wet Rain Hill, just above Liz's Burn, called Bell Hollow.
- Structurally dominated by a small geological fault, it is a cave that typifies the best of Yorkshire potholes: wet, deep, vertical, and culminating in one of the finest shafts in the country.
- Certainly there are potholes in the lake which mean it is 100 ft deep in places, so there is always winter-cold water below the surface, however hot the day.
Synonyms
cave, cavern, cavity, hollow, recess, alcove
1. 1.1 A deep circular hole in a riverbed formed by the erosion of the rock by the rotation of stones in an eddy.
  河床涡穴
  Example sentencesExamples
  Balanced on a log suspended over a glacial pothole, she is searching the foot-deep water for endangered howellia and their delicate white florets no bigger than her baby finger.
  Some environmental activists yesterday inspect the Nuanjiang section of the Keelung River, where geologically unique potholes are to be found.
  Small potholes may hold water long enough for crabs to molt, but not to undergo larval development.
  They inhabit swift streams, the backwaters of large rivers, brackish lagoons, and potholes.
2. 1.2 A depression or hollow in a road surface caused by wear or subsidence.
  （因磨损或下陷而形成的）路面凹坑
  Example sentencesExamples
  The highway developed large potholes and irregular bumps and hollows.
  Pedestrians aren't exactly better off, for they are the ones who get splashed with muddy water every time a vehicle lurches into a pothole.
  The regular replacement of cracked paving stones and filling-in of potholes is one of the things your council tax buys you.
  The 4x4 can much more easily deal with his potholes and appalling road surfaces.
  Our roads are full of potholes and irregular surfacing.
  I settled back into my seat as much as I could as we rolled over the various rocks, potholes, and ruts in the road.
  New white lines will be painted, potholes repaired and underground gulleys will be cleared to improve drainage.
  The roads have large potholes, road calming humps, roundabouts and other obstacles.
  Pavements cracked, potholes grew, water and service charges were imposed and the row over the funding of local authorities has raged ever since.
  The approach roads are full of potholes and the main road leading to Hoshiarpur is in a bad shape.
  He said that after an assessment has been made, some potholes were usually repaired within 24 hours, but deeper holes could take two or three days or sometimes up to a week.
  The plan may also establish a target of repairing potholes in roads of this type within a fortnight of the council becoming aware of the problem.
  We had to pass several stretches of road that had deep potholes filled with murky water and big stones.
  The front right wheel clattered through a deep pothole filled with dark rain water which splashed up, showering the front of the van.
  The road wears the usual spring potholes, but the new (very expensive) upper road is holding up well.
  Huge potholes mar the surface, only half the road per se is motorable, there is no system of demarcated drains and the entire stretch is one filthy mess.
  Tar is soluble in fossil fuels like diesel and petrol and oil spill loosens the road surface and potholes begin to form.
  He said the council had put stones into the potholes a few weeks ago and they had already been washed away by the rains.
  The entire road is a pothole - a red-earth track with occasional rafts of Tarmac which drivers avoid at all costs for fear of wrecking their suspension.
  Drivers were left stranded, surrounded by water, while other cars became stuck in potholes caused by the heavy rain.
  Synonyms
  wheel track, furrow, groove, track, trough, ditch, trench, gutter, gouge, crack, hollow, hole, cavity, crater
3. 1.3North American A pond in a natural hollow in the ground.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Prairie potholes are natural depressions that can be a fifth of an acre up to 500 acres in size.
  Waterfowl were available in the larger river valleys, and they are common at prairie potholes.
  The valley is wet, the high benches are pocked with pothole lakes, springs, and ponds, and mastodons browse along a braided watercourse snaking across the bottomland at the foot of the cliff.
  In the prairie pothole region of the United States, blackbirds damage ripening sunflower crops.
  The sedge meadow community graded into bluejoint-muhly grass wet prairie along its drier boundaries and prairie pothole marsh where water was deeper.
  The refuge's north unit contains the 8,700-acre Medicine Lake, eight smaller lakes, and numerous pothole wetlands.
  The rolling hills of northern Wisconsin's glacial kettle moraine are densely forested with hardwoods, birch and aspen and pitted with potholes and lakes.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Middle English pot ‘pit’ (perhaps of Scandinavian origin) + hole.

词汇	pothole
释义	Definition of pothole in English: pothole noun ˈpɒthəʊlˈpɑtˌhoʊl 1A deep natural underground cave formed by the erosion of rock, especially by the action of water. （尤指岩石受水侵蚀而形成的天然）锅穴，壶穴 Example sentencesExamples Some rocky and steep-sided dolines and potholes have been enlarged by progressive collapse of the limestone and retreat of their exposed rock walls. Back-wrenching potholes get deeper and wider. Bats spend the summer living in trees and buildings, and retreat to caves and potholes in winter, to hibernate. He named the Channeled Scablands, with its catastrophically water-carved coulees, dry waterfalls, potholes and huge erratic boulders. Certainly there are potholes in the lake which mean it is 100 ft deep in places, so there is always winter-cold water below the surface, however hot the day. The second feature is a deep cave or pothole on Wet Rain Hill, just above Liz's Burn, called Bell Hollow. A prehistoric occupation site was discovered at the bottom of a hollow some 600 sq. m. in area, resulting from the collapse of an underground pothole. The dark hole near Pwll Fanogl, believed by some to be a massive pothole in the limestone, is nearly 30m deep. During the hectic work schedule it was hoped they would visit the deepest pothole in Asia, the Ghar Parau, discovered by an English expedition in 1971 which reached 751 metres deep. Structurally dominated by a small geological fault, it is a cave that typifies the best of Yorkshire potholes: wet, deep, vertical, and culminating in one of the finest shafts in the country. The Bulgarian team investigated, explored and made maps of nine caves and potholes, all of them 4km long. They have just spent four weeks in the Guilin area - close to the Vietnam border - investigating local potholes with a view to identifying a potential show cave. Synonyms cave, cavern, cavity, hollow, recess, alcove 1.1 A deep circular hole in a riverbed formed by the erosion of the rock by the rotation of stones in an eddy. 河床涡穴 Example sentencesExamples Balanced on a log suspended over a glacial pothole, she is searching the foot-deep water for endangered howellia and their delicate white florets no bigger than her baby finger. Small potholes may hold water long enough for crabs to molt, but not to undergo larval development. Some environmental activists yesterday inspect the Nuanjiang section of the Keelung River, where geologically unique potholes are to be found. They inhabit swift streams, the backwaters of large rivers, brackish lagoons, and potholes. 1.2North American A pond formed by a natural hollow in the ground in which water has collected. 〈北美〉天然池塘 upstream were potholes from the recent rains where a pair of herons stood Example sentencesExamples Prairie potholes are natural depressions that can be a fifth of an acre up to 500 acres in size. The valley is wet, the high benches are pocked with pothole lakes, springs, and ponds, and mastodons browse along a braided watercourse snaking across the bottomland at the foot of the cliff. The sedge meadow community graded into bluejoint-muhly grass wet prairie along its drier boundaries and prairie pothole marsh where water was deeper. In the prairie pothole region of the United States, blackbirds damage ripening sunflower crops. The refuge's north unit contains the 8,700-acre Medicine Lake, eight smaller lakes, and numerous pothole wetlands. The rolling hills of northern Wisconsin's glacial kettle moraine are densely forested with hardwoods, birch and aspen and pitted with potholes and lakes. Waterfowl were available in the larger river valleys, and they are common at prairie potholes. 2A depression or hollow in a road surface caused by wear or subsidence. （因磨损或下陷而形成的）路面凹坑 he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road Example sentencesExamples The entire road is a pothole - a red-earth track with occasional rafts of Tarmac which drivers avoid at all costs for fear of wrecking their suspension. Pedestrians aren't exactly better off, for they are the ones who get splashed with muddy water every time a vehicle lurches into a pothole. I settled back into my seat as much as I could as we rolled over the various rocks, potholes, and ruts in the road. The 4x4 can much more easily deal with his potholes and appalling road surfaces. He said that after an assessment has been made, some potholes were usually repaired within 24 hours, but deeper holes could take two or three days or sometimes up to a week. The front right wheel clattered through a deep pothole filled with dark rain water which splashed up, showering the front of the van. Huge potholes mar the surface, only half the road per se is motorable, there is no system of demarcated drains and the entire stretch is one filthy mess. The approach roads are full of potholes and the main road leading to Hoshiarpur is in a bad shape. Pavements cracked, potholes grew, water and service charges were imposed and the row over the funding of local authorities has raged ever since. We had to pass several stretches of road that had deep potholes filled with murky water and big stones. The highway developed large potholes and irregular bumps and hollows. The roads have large potholes, road calming humps, roundabouts and other obstacles. Tar is soluble in fossil fuels like diesel and petrol and oil spill loosens the road surface and potholes begin to form. Drivers were left stranded, surrounded by water, while other cars became stuck in potholes caused by the heavy rain. New white lines will be painted, potholes repaired and underground gulleys will be cleared to improve drainage. The regular replacement of cracked paving stones and filling-in of potholes is one of the things your council tax buys you. He said the council had put stones into the potholes a few weeks ago and they had already been washed away by the rains. The road wears the usual spring potholes, but the new (very expensive) upper road is holding up well. The plan may also establish a target of repairing potholes in roads of this type within a fortnight of the council becoming aware of the problem. Our roads are full of potholes and irregular surfacing. Synonyms wheel track, furrow, groove, track, trough, ditch, trench, gutter, gouge, crack, hollow, hole, cavity, crater verb ˈpɒthəʊl [no object]often as noun potholingBritish Explore underground potholes as a pastime. 〈英〉（为消遣而）探索洞穴 they went potholing in the Pennines 他们在奔宁山探索地洞。 Example sentencesExamples Teams must navigate the course with map and compass and cover it through a prescribed combination of kayaking, mountain biking, trekking, climbing, horse riding and potholing. La Cueva del Gato is a popular site with the European potholing community. The alarm was raised by the man's potholing colleague shortly after 3pm when the pair became separated at Diccan Pot in Ribblesdale. We hiked, swam, climbed, potholed, abseiled, ran, jumped, fell in, fell over and camped on most of Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland during my time with the association. And last night, a member of the same potholing club said the so-called crisis had not presented the cavers with anything they would not have been prepared for. I was very impressed with this Yorkshire potholing, but my ladder climbing was abysmal and it took me more than half an hour to be dragged up the 91m daylight pitch of Long Kin West. Try some extreme sports - skydiving, rock climbing, potholing, ballooning, motor racing the list is endless. Of course you always get one like him, the guy who'd done the caves the hard way by potholing, umpteen years ago, and wanted to let everyone know. The kids were packed off to the campsite and spent the day rock climbing, clay shooting, potholing, go-karting. The sign points out the dangers of approaching too close to Bell Hollow, and strongly advises against using the cave for potholing explorations. After a date with a woman who enjoyed potholing and had a moustache, and one other appalling mismatch, I never used them again. The experienced caver and climber died a few hours later while potholing, plunging 70 feet to her death. Synonyms make holes in, make hollows in, hole, dent, indent, depress, dint, pothole Derivatives potholed adjective Miscarraiges, dislocated shoulders, broken bones, damaged axels there is enough reason for people to be concerned over the city's potholed roads. Example sentencesExamples Down with the government, all chorused; and waved flags and banners, as we marched in twos and threes across broken pavements and potholed roads. And as a result of all the growth, plush restaurants have popped up beside the potholed roads and property prices have shot up, especially for trendy condominiums. Thankfully someone had the bright idea to water down the dusty potholed road between Laborie and Piaye. How often do we, the hard-pressed citizens, ponder this topic as we bump along potholed roads or survey the latest round of digging up along our main streets? potholer noun ˈpɒthəʊləˈpɑthoʊlər We may ask potholers to establish a voluntary code of practice, such as not going in at dusk, when they may disturb the bats leaving the cave. Example sentencesExamples A manchester caver is trying to achieve the potholer's ultimate challenge by going deeper underground than anyone has been before. Earby potholers made a return visit to Pikedaw caves, between Settle and Malham, to continue their exploration of a previously undiscovered hole. There was a four-day intensive course at headquarters in Birkenshaw, run by instructors who are experienced climbers and potholers. The final call out of the year had been five minutes before midnight on New Year's Eve from potholers intending to see in the new year underground. Origin Early 19th century: from Middle English pot 'pit' (perhaps of Scandinavian origin) + hole. Rhymes knothole Definition of pothole in US English: pothole nounˈpɑtˌhoʊlˈpätˌhōl 1A deep natural underground cavity formed by the erosion of rock, especially by the action of water. （尤指岩石受水侵蚀而形成的天然）锅穴，壶穴 Example sentencesExamples Back-wrenching potholes get deeper and wider. The dark hole near Pwll Fanogl, believed by some to be a massive pothole in the limestone, is nearly 30m deep. The Bulgarian team investigated, explored and made maps of nine caves and potholes, all of them 4km long. He named the Channeled Scablands, with its catastrophically water-carved coulees, dry waterfalls, potholes and huge erratic boulders. They have just spent four weeks in the Guilin area - close to the Vietnam border - investigating local potholes with a view to identifying a potential show cave. Some rocky and steep-sided dolines and potholes have been enlarged by progressive collapse of the limestone and retreat of their exposed rock walls. During the hectic work schedule it was hoped they would visit the deepest pothole in Asia, the Ghar Parau, discovered by an English expedition in 1971 which reached 751 metres deep. Bats spend the summer living in trees and buildings, and retreat to caves and potholes in winter, to hibernate. A prehistoric occupation site was discovered at the bottom of a hollow some 600 sq. m. in area, resulting from the collapse of an underground pothole. The second feature is a deep cave or pothole on Wet Rain Hill, just above Liz's Burn, called Bell Hollow. Structurally dominated by a small geological fault, it is a cave that typifies the best of Yorkshire potholes: wet, deep, vertical, and culminating in one of the finest shafts in the country. Certainly there are potholes in the lake which mean it is 100 ft deep in places, so there is always winter-cold water below the surface, however hot the day. Synonyms cave, cavern, cavity, hollow, recess, alcove 1.1 A deep circular hole in a riverbed formed by the erosion of the rock by the rotation of stones in an eddy. 河床涡穴 Example sentencesExamples Balanced on a log suspended over a glacial pothole, she is searching the foot-deep water for endangered howellia and their delicate white florets no bigger than her baby finger. Some environmental activists yesterday inspect the Nuanjiang section of the Keelung River, where geologically unique potholes are to be found. Small potholes may hold water long enough for crabs to molt, but not to undergo larval development. They inhabit swift streams, the backwaters of large rivers, brackish lagoons, and potholes. 1.2 A depression or hollow in a road surface caused by wear or subsidence. （因磨损或下陷而形成的）路面凹坑 Example sentencesExamples The highway developed large potholes and irregular bumps and hollows. Pedestrians aren't exactly better off, for they are the ones who get splashed with muddy water every time a vehicle lurches into a pothole. The regular replacement of cracked paving stones and filling-in of potholes is one of the things your council tax buys you. The 4x4 can much more easily deal with his potholes and appalling road surfaces. Our roads are full of potholes and irregular surfacing. I settled back into my seat as much as I could as we rolled over the various rocks, potholes, and ruts in the road. New white lines will be painted, potholes repaired and underground gulleys will be cleared to improve drainage. The roads have large potholes, road calming humps, roundabouts and other obstacles. Pavements cracked, potholes grew, water and service charges were imposed and the row over the funding of local authorities has raged ever since. The approach roads are full of potholes and the main road leading to Hoshiarpur is in a bad shape. He said that after an assessment has been made, some potholes were usually repaired within 24 hours, but deeper holes could take two or three days or sometimes up to a week. The plan may also establish a target of repairing potholes in roads of this type within a fortnight of the council becoming aware of the problem. We had to pass several stretches of road that had deep potholes filled with murky water and big stones. The front right wheel clattered through a deep pothole filled with dark rain water which splashed up, showering the front of the van. The road wears the usual spring potholes, but the new (very expensive) upper road is holding up well. Huge potholes mar the surface, only half the road per se is motorable, there is no system of demarcated drains and the entire stretch is one filthy mess. Tar is soluble in fossil fuels like diesel and petrol and oil spill loosens the road surface and potholes begin to form. He said the council had put stones into the potholes a few weeks ago and they had already been washed away by the rains. The entire road is a pothole - a red-earth track with occasional rafts of Tarmac which drivers avoid at all costs for fear of wrecking their suspension. Drivers were left stranded, surrounded by water, while other cars became stuck in potholes caused by the heavy rain. Synonyms wheel track, furrow, groove, track, trough, ditch, trench, gutter, gouge, crack, hollow, hole, cavity, crater 1.3North American A pond in a natural hollow in the ground. Example sentencesExamples Prairie potholes are natural depressions that can be a fifth of an acre up to 500 acres in size. Waterfowl were available in the larger river valleys, and they are common at prairie potholes. The valley is wet, the high benches are pocked with pothole lakes, springs, and ponds, and mastodons browse along a braided watercourse snaking across the bottomland at the foot of the cliff. In the prairie pothole region of the United States, blackbirds damage ripening sunflower crops. The sedge meadow community graded into bluejoint-muhly grass wet prairie along its drier boundaries and prairie pothole marsh where water was deeper. The refuge's north unit contains the 8,700-acre Medicine Lake, eight smaller lakes, and numerous pothole wetlands. The rolling hills of northern Wisconsin's glacial kettle moraine are densely forested with hardwoods, birch and aspen and pitted with potholes and lakes. Origin Early 19th century: from Middle English pot ‘pit’ (perhaps of Scandinavian origin) + hole.
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