quarries
The word “quarries” has 2 syllables: quar-ries
It's pronounced as /ˈkwɒr.iz/
What is synonym and antonym for quarries?
In the thesaurus, “quarries” has 23 synonyms and 7 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for quarries along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for quarries
- beasts
- brutes
- burrows
- chases
- claws
- creatures
- critters
- delves
- digs
- digs in
- dredges
- excavates
- games
- grubs
- kills
- mines
- prey
- preys
- scoops
- shovels
- spades
- targets
- victims
Antonyms for quarries
- carnivores
- chasers
- hunters
- killers
- murderers
- predators
- pursuers
Meanings of quarries
- noun
- A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
- A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
- An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
- An object of search or pursuit.
- A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
- verb
- To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
- To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
- To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
Example Sentences
- The workers in the nearby quarries extracted high-quality stones for the construction project.
- Environmental regulations were put in place to minimize the impact of quarries on local ecosystems.
- The region is known for its abundance of limestone quarries that supply materials for various industries.
- The machinery in the quarries roared to life as the extraction process began.
- The geologists studied the geological formations around the quarries to understand the stone composition.
On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to quarries, such as: beasts, brutes, burrows, carnivores, chasers, chases, claws.
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- blue-pencils
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- brutes
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- declines
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- distributaries
- does away with
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- launders
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- millraces
- millstreams
- mothballs
- mows
- murders
- negatives
- neutralizes
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- obliterates
- offs
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- phases out
- pleases
- prey
- preys
- pulls
- puts away
- puts down
- quarries
- races
- red-pencils
- redacts
- refuses
- removes
- represses
- rills
- rivulets
- rubs out
- runlets
- runnels
- runoffs
- runs
- saps
- scrags
- seduces
- shoots down
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- slaughters
- slays
- slews
- sloughs
- slues
- smites
- snuffs
- solicits
- stalls
- sticks
- streamlets
- streams
- suicides
- suppresses
- takes
- takes out
- targets
- tempts
- terminates
- tires
- tributaries
- turns off
- vetoes
- victims
- washes
- washes out
- wastes
- watercourses
- waterways
- weakens
- wearies
- wears
- wears out
- wears to a frazzle
- whacks
- wiles
- wipes out
- witches
- woos