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tunnel

/ˈtʌnl/noun

उच्चारण टनल

सुरंग

Basic word

noun
  1. 1

    [C]

    a passage built underground, for example to allow a road or railway to go through a hill, under a river; an underground passage made by an animal

    सुरंग

    • The train went through a tunnel.
    • The road runs through a tunnel under the hill.
    • The workers dug a tunnel for the new metro line.
    + 1 more example
    • A mole lives in a tunnel under our lawn.

    Synonyms underpass subway passage shaft burrow

verbtunnelling, tunnelled (AmE tunneling, tunneled)
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    [I, T]

    to dig a tunnel under or through the ground

    सुरंग बनाना

    • Rats tunnelled under the wall.
    • Prisoners tried to tunnel out of the jail.
    • The engineers are tunnelling through the mountain to build the railway.
    + 1 more example
    • Ants tunnelled deep into the soil.

    Synonyms dig burrow excavate bore mine

≈Synonyms and antonyms

Synonyms

underpass subway passage shaft burrow dig excavate bore mine

AaSpelling

tun·nel

“Collocations, idioms and sayings

Light at the end of the tunnel (a sign that a difficult period is ending), tunnel vision (the tendency to think about only one part of a situation and ignore others).

Idioms बहुत पूछे जाते हैं: light at the end of the tunnel (कठिन दौर समाप्त होने का संकेत, उम्मीद की किरण), tunnel vision (स्थिति के केवल एक भाग के बारे में सोचने और अन्य की अनदेखी की प्रवृत्ति, संकीर्ण दृष्टि)।

✓In the exam

General knowledge

The Atal Tunnel (Rohtang, Himachal Pradesh, 2020) is the world's longest highway tunnel above 10,000 feet; the Pir Panjal railway tunnel is in Jammu and Kashmir; the Channel Tunnel connects England and France under the sea.

अटल सुरंग (रोहतांग, हिमाचल प्रदेश, 2020) 10,000 फ़ीट से ऊपर दुनिया की सबसे लंबी राजमार्ग सुरंग है; पीर पंजाल रेलवे सुरंग जम्मू-कश्मीर में है; Channel Tunnel समुद्र के नीचे इंग्लैंड और फ़्रांस को जोड़ती है।