Definitions for caving

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caving cav·ing

Spelling: [key-ving]

IPA: /ˈkeɪ vɪŋ/

Caving is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in caving (acginv).

Definitions for caving

noun

1. spelunking.
2. a hollow in the earth, especially one opening more or less horizontally into a hill, mountain, etc.
3. a storage cellar, especially for wine.
4. English History. a secession, or a group of seceders, from a political party on some special question.

Verb phrases

1. cave in, to fall in; collapse. to cause to fall in or collapse. Informal. to yield; submit; surrender:

verb (used with object)

1. to hollow out.
2. Mining. to cause (overlying material) to fall into a stope, sublevel, or the like. to cause (supports, as stulls or sets) to collapse beneath overlying material. to fill (a stope or the like) with caved-in material:

verb (used without object)

1. to cave in.

Origin of caving

First recorded in 1865-70; cave + -ing¹

Examples for caving

The banks are caving and the shape of the shores changing like everything.

Anderson fired back, accusing his friend of giving up his own personal integrity and “caving to his handlers.”

But caving in the current standoff could cost Boehner his speakership anyway.

There seems to me a chance—a small chance at this point, but a chance—that the roof is caving in here.

What remains is just bigotry, and probably a spiteful resistance to being seen as caving in to the relativists.

For a minute I felt like caving in his head, then and there, with the golf club I carried.

But as to caving in to Crofter as the cost of my shelter, they drew the line at that.

The hay had been wet and was frozen, so there was no danger of its caving down on me.

caving on the debt limit in 2011 was the political low point of his presidency.

Fainting was the prelude to caving in, with the women he knew.