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Synonyms for pore

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for pore

any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)

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any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal

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a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass

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The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep; and was this a time to be poring over musty books in a dark room, slighted by the very sun itself?
If he hadn't been poring over his books out of fear of you, he would have been well and merry now, I know he would.'
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And have I not tallied the whale, Ahab would mutter to himself, as after poring over his charts till long after midnight he would throw himself back in reveries --tallied him, and shall he escape?
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In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits.
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They had grown gray in study; their eyes were bleared with poring over print and manuscript by the light of the midnight lamp.
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