Word "DRILL" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
Synonyms:
bore
Examples:
don't drill here, there's a gas pipe
drill a hole into the wall
drill for oil

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
systematic training by multiple repetitions
Synonyms:
exercise, practice, practice session, recitation

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
learn by repetition
Synonyms:
exercise, practice, practise
Examples:
We drilled French verbs every day

Crossword Clues for DRILL

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Dentist's tool (5) Mirror Classic 14 Aug 2025
Boot camp workout LA Times Mini 09 Aug 2025
Go through army exercise (5)
Boring tool The Sun Two Speed 10 Jul 2025
Doctor unwell in practice The Sun Two Speed 10 Jul 2025
Sick, going, to doctor: usual routine (5)
A boring power tool? (5)
Soldier's marching training (5)
To march up and down a barrack square may create a hole (5)
It's one boring routine
Small furrow for sowing seed (5)
Servicemen may find it boring (5)
Make well, perhaps, with exercise (5)
Hard-wearing material for military training (5)
Train in military arts
Doctor, unwell, using rotating tool (5)
Exercise yard's backing onto stream (5) Puzzler Cryptic 24 May 2025
Routine procedure (5)
Excellent day for boy in school (5)
Exercise to make well? (5)
Training exercise at the dentist's? (5)
Bore with repetitious exercises (5)
Formal procedure for a healer of the sick
Dreaded dentist's tool
A dentist's machine (5)
Recruits can find it boring
Repetitive instruction
Fire safety routine, say
Such material can be a bore (5) Puzzler Cryptic 12 Mar 2025
Hard-wearing twill-weave cotton cloth used for uniforms (5)
Fire ___ (school safety exercise)
Bore makes doctor unwell (5)
Bore a hole with this tool
Exercise is a bore
A doctor takes a sick condition as some sort of exercise (5)
Tool that needs a bit to work
Row of seeds provides physical exercise (5)
The usual procedure can be boring (5)
It can be boring for the soldiers (5)
Doctor unwell? That's a bit boring The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Jan 2025
Exercise makes doctor unwell
"Boring" purchase at a hardware store? LA Times Mini 19 Jan 2025
A boring exercise? (5)
Dentist's tool Mirror Classic 18 Jan 2025
Go through the exercise (5)
Disciplined exercise is a boring thing (5)
The usual procedure is to make a hole in (5)
Exercise machine that could get boring The Times Cryptic 27 Dec 2024
Square-bashing (5)
Stout cotton cloth may be seen on the parade-ground (5)
Something used by dentist or doctor badly
Exercise makes the doctor in need of a doctor! (5)
Do some boring exercise (5)
It's meant to be boring when the doctor is unwell (5)
Dentist's tool? Mirror Tea Time 03 Dec 2024
Teach to doctor the sick (5)
What dentists do for exercise? (5)
Train to make well, for example (5)
Try to get well (5)
Doctor! How sick I am! ... You need exercise!
Be aware of the routine: know the -
It will need bits of repetitious training (5)
Tool for making holes: electric -
Correct procedure for the sick going to a doctor (5)
Train Mirror Quick 04 Nov 2024
Bore with exercise Mirror Cryptic 04 Nov 2024
Doctor, bad, using rotating tool (5)
A procedure you may find boring (5)
Tool used by 15 across made medico sick (5)
Training - this could be boring The Telegraph Cryptic 29 Oct 2024
Herb adopts Romeo's routine (5)
Repetitive training exercise (5)
Sick, goes to the doctor. That's the form (5)
Boring tool for exercise (5)
Use a boring tool in practice (5) The Guardian Quick Cryptic 22 Sep 2024
Use a boring tool in practice (5) The Guardian Quick 22 Sep 2024
Use a boring tool in practice (5) The Guardian Quick Cryptic 21 Sep 2024
Use a boring tool in practice (5) The Guardian Quick 21 Sep 2024
Parade-ground exercise
Boring machine (5)
Do soldiers find it boring?
"You know the ___" (how something is done) (5)
Private practice Newsday 06 Sep 2024
What one's expected to do is exercise (5)
Doctor the sick as standard procedure
Exercise to get through (5)
Boot camp activity ... or a word that means "repetitive training"
Dentist's tool for boring into a tooth
Make a hole in it: that's the form (5)
Training exercise The Telegraph Quick 18 Aug 2024
"Power" tool that makes holes ... and a character from 43a named Spinner
*Dental tool with a "worry-ing" sound, that might make you remark "Stop that sound, please!"
Teach us the correct procedure (5)
Dentist's tool Mirror Classic 08 Jul 2024
A bit of exercise? (5)
Procedure making doctor unwell (5)
Make a hole in the tooth? (5)
Type of repeated training for a group of people, especially soldiers (5)
It's boring Thomas Joseph 26 Jun 2024
Doctor! See how sick I am? ... You need exercise!
Strict training
Army base exercise (5)
Marching of men up and down may be a bore (5)
Training exercises (5) The Guardian Quick 14 Jun 2024
Exercise by repeated practice (5)
To go in for square-bashing, and produce a hole (5)
Dentist's tool Premier Sunday 02 Jun 2024
Large Old World monkey similar to a baboon (5)
Training baboon to do without man (5)
Training exercise The Telegraph Quick 17 May 2024
Training exercise; something a 29 Across might use The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 16 May 2024
Regular exercise made the doctor unwell! (5)
Not only soldiers may be bored by it (5)
Such material can be a bore (5) Puzzler Cryptic 13 May 2024
Army exercise on oil rig (5)
Subgenre of hip-hop music lyrically similar to gangsta rap The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 11 May 2024
Military training can be a bore (5)
Soldier's parade ground marching (5)
Correct procedure when you use an electric tool (5)
Rotary tool(5)
Old World monkey of W. Africa (5)
Boring material?
The form (5)
Sick, when taken to the doctor, that's the form (5)
Find exercise a bore (5)
A boring tool or machine (5)
Bore (a hole) (5)
It's boring for a doctor being unwell
Boring tool Thomas Joseph 16 Apr 2024
Bore strict training The Times Quick Cryptic 10 Apr 2024
Boring exercise? (5)
Small furrow for sowing seeds in
Military square-basting (5)
Exercise a bit (5)
Dentist's instrument
Make a hole in; that's the procedure (5)
Dentist's tool? Mirror Tea Time 10 Mar 2024
Exercise - that's the form (5)
Bore with repetitious training exercises (5)
Dentist's equipment (5)
Soldiers may find it boring (5)
Stout cotton cloth (5)
Doctor gets sick of exercise (5)
It's used for boring exercise (5)
Something used in boring military training (5)
Sick, goes to the doctor: that's the routine (5)
Tool used to make holes in strong twilled cotton (5)
A tool or machine with a rotating tip used for making holes (5)
Train people to shun baboon The Times Cryptic 16 Jan 2024
Shallow line in soil made for sowing seeds (5)
Exercise which will bore? (5) Puzzler Cryptic 09 Jan 2024
School routine (5)
Music genre with similarities to gangsta rap
Medic with unopened tablet in practice (5)
Instruct to get a hardwearing material (5)
It may be a bore. marching up and down (5)
Bore with complaint on way back The Times Cryptic 05 Dec 2023
Instruct to make a hole in (5)
Pierce, bore (5)
Pierce or bore a hole through (5)
Sowing device, seed - - - (5)
Training exercise is not well introduced by doctor
Train monkey to do without man
Word for military evolutions; an auger, borer, gimlet or wimble; a furrow; a machine for sowing seeds in such a rut; or, an African baboon (5)
What dentist might use in practice The Times Quick Cryptic 08 Nov 2023
Teach by rigorous training The Times Concise 16 Sep 2023
Practice routine The Times Concise 19 Jun 2023
Dentist's tool LA Times Daily 10 May 2023
Fire ___ (practice procedure for a fire emergency)
Primate dismissing bishop perhaps as bore The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Mar 2023
What will bore physician seen with sick
Make furrow for herb right this second Irish Times Crosaire 10 Jun 2022
Tool for making holes USA Today 07 Apr 2022
I'm a toolbox member used for making holes
"You know the __" LA Times Daily 27 Feb 2022
'You know the __' The Washington Post 27 Feb 2022
Boring tool The Guardian Quick 11 Feb 2022
Dentist's root canal tool
Training The Telegraph Quick 24 Dec 2021
Case of ‘Physician, heal thyself'? That's a bore
Make a hole close to old stream
Training medic badly The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Apr 2021
Boring tool The Telegraph Quick 10 Feb 2021
Dentists may resort to this procedure The Sun Two Speed 05 Feb 2021
Boring tool The Sun Two Speed 05 Feb 2021
It gets boring pretty quickly Jonesin 19 Jan 2021
Train monkey abandoned by staff
It’s boring Wall Street Journal 25 Nov 2020
Boring tool The Times Concise 19 Nov 2020
Train doctor poorly The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Nov 2020
Practice exercise Universal 04 Nov 2020
Boot camp training (rhymes with "frill")
Monkey training
Repetitious exercise The Guardian Speedy 27 Sep 2020
Tool with a bit USA Today 07 Sep 2020
Hole producer The Washington Post Sunday 06 Sep 2020
Man fleeing bright-bottomed baboon? That's boring
Training doctor badly The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Jul 2020
Man fleeing bright-bottomed baboon? That's boring
Boring item The New Yorker 04 May 2020
Doctor damaging practice
Tool for boring holes Irish Times Simplex 16 Apr 2020
Repetitive practice Newsday 08 Mar 2020
Hole-boring tool Newsday 09 Dec 2019
Fire ___ New York Times 05 Nov 2019
Fire ___
Routine sees medic attending disease
Boot camp exercise USA Today 26 Aug 2019
Exercise with flashcards USA Today 24 Aug 2019
Training doctor poorly
Dry run New York Times 25 Jul 2019
Dentist's tool Universal 22 May 2019
School, boring one
Boring thing, practice
Routine activity, as a fire evacuation
Exercise The Guardian Speedy 03 Mar 2019
Fire __ The Washington Post 14 Feb 2019
Fire __ LA Times Daily 14 Feb 2019
Exercise yard's close by stream
Practice material
Fire __
Boot camp exercise
Exercise with flashcards
Dry run
Dentist's tool
Exercise The Telegraph Quick 22 Oct 2018
Hole-making tool The Times Concise 19 Oct 2018
It has a little bit Universal 14 Aug 2018
Doctor needing medical help that's often boring The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Aug 2018
Exercise? One needs a bit
"You know the ___" Universal 08 May 2018
Poor support for GP's practice
It could take a little bit Newsday 23 Mar 2018
Rigorous training medic badly needed
Exercise / a bit with this?
Romeo lands in a pickle with coach
"You know the ___"
It has a little bit
Rehearsal of the procedure to be followed in an emergency Irish Times Simplex 12 Dec 2017
Vacuous dealer Hoskins will bore
Medic is not good with the discipline Irish Times Crosaire 30 Nov 2017
Exercise a bit on this? The Telegraph Cryptic 31 Oct 2017
Sick coming to doctor's practice
Dentists may resort to this procedure
Make a hole in fabric
Medic's poor procedure
Routine activity, as a fire evacuation
Exercise monkey but not man
Doctor having trouble with training exercise
Training ground starts to demoralise latest recruits immediately
A routine activity or exercise, such as a fire ___
Dentist's tool Eugene Sheffer 21 Jun 2017
Practice for a 56 Across Newsday 14 May 2017
Tool for a carpenter or dentist Family Time 07 May 2017
Sick following doctor's practice The Telegraph Cryptic 04 May 2017
Tool for a carpenter or dentist New York Times 10 Apr 2017
Military training The Times Concise 29 Mar 2017
Dolly bird sacrificed body training Irish Times Crosaire 23 Feb 2017
It makes a hole in material
Dentist's tool New York Times 06 Feb 2017
Bore that's possibly on the square? The Times Cryptic 25 Jan 2017
What squaddies do is broadcast in row The Telegraph Toughie 04 Jan 2017
Tool for a carpenter or dentist
Dentist's tool
Machine usually seen on school playground or military parade ground
As patient, perhaps, attending doctor's practice The Times Cryptic 02 Nov 2016
Boring tool The Washington Post 07 Oct 2016
Boring bit of exercise
Instruct The Times Concise 31 Jul 2016
Make a hole through material
Fire safety measure New York Times 28 Jan 2016
Medic one's going to makes one exercise
Fire safety measure
Practice exercise LA Times Daily 30 Dec 2015
Bore physician, needing his services
Marching practice USA Today 11 Dec 2015
Exercise for soldiers The Telegraph Quick 07 Nov 2015
It has a bit part Wall Street Journal 17 Sep 2015
Base exercise LA Times Daily 29 Jul 2015
Drive badly? Instruction provided The Times Cryptic 29 May 2015
Practice that's owned by a dentist?
Exercise or teach through repeated practice Irish Times Simplex 30 Apr 2015
Base exercise
Practice exercise
Marching practice
It has a bit part
Repetitive practice
Teach // a baboon
D stream in school
Dental device
Private practice
Marching order
Dentist's tool
Try to find oil
Boot camp routine
Word after fire or power
Dentist's tool
Look for gushers
Practice
Practice exercise
Dentist's tool
Whiny dental tool
Major operation?
Boot camp activity
Part of basketball practice
Practice session
Part of a fire safety program
Private practice?
Private practice
Boring tool?
Machine with bits
Machine with bits
Practice exercise
It can hold a little bit at a time
Try for a gusher
Marching practice
Machinist's tool
Bore
March around camp, e.g.
Military practice
Try to find oil
Try to find oil
Rigorous practice
It's boring
Dentist's device
It's boring
Dentist's tool
Boring tool
Intense practice
Intense practice
Training exercise
Dentist's implement
Customary manner of doing things
Root canal tool
Marching practice
Master or sergeant
Dentist's tool
Woodworking tool
Boring device
Sergeant's chore
One might have a little bit
Rigorous practice
Dentist's weapon?
Put through the paces
Put through the paces
Rigorous practice
Boot camp workout
One might have a little bit
Boot camp workout
Home Depot purchase
Boring thing
It turns a bit
Dentist's tool
Practice
Carpentry tool
It's boring
Go after oil
Sergeant's task
Dental equipment
Word with press or team
Part of a test prep
Carpenter.s tool
"You know the ___"
Emergency practice
Practice session
Part of a fire safety program
Team practice activity
Military
Kind of press
Bore
Routine
Practice
Oil field feature
Basic training
Jackhammer
Prospect for oil
Boot-camp workout
Exercise for a dentist?
Bore
Kind of sergeant
Sergeant's forte
Baboon
Rehersal
W African baboon
U.S.M.A. workout
Exercise
Cotton cloth
Carpentry tool
Dental tool
Rehearse
Military exercise
Workout
Work on a cavity
Baboon of Africa
Soldier's exercise.
Part of basic training.
Cadets' daily exercise.
Military training.
Cloth for work clothes.
Cadets' routine.
Linen or cotton cloth.
Cotton cloth.
Trainees' exercise.
Military exercises.
Coarse cotton cloth.
One way to teach.
Coarse cloth.
Coarse linen or cotton cloth.
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