mole
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8.2
- noun
- /moʊl/
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topo
- After months of investigation, they finally uncovered the identity of the mole who had been feeding information to the enemy.
- suspected mole
- a mole hunt
- plant a mole
Multiple moles were caught in the years following.
- Multiple moles were caught in the years following.
- And so that mole has never been discovered.
- Because I guess the UFO community at that time was infested with Soviet or, you know, Soviet moles, right?
- She's just, I had loads of questions about the book that I was reading to her in my last vlog, The Mole.
Examples
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Later on, the Observers actually find a Resistance mole inside the Loyalists and start interrogating him.
Blog text (11) -
You saying there's a mole in the Secret Service?
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On the count of three, will the mole please raise their hand?
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When I count to three, can the mole please step forward?
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There could be a mole in the Men in Black.
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We have one thing the mole wants.
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Whoever the mole is, I think goes by the name of Job, at least part of the time.
Fiction book (1996) -
There was a mole in our midst and Admiral Pound has ordered the mission to be aborted.
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That sub was definitely sabotaged, so we've got a mole on the station.
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"Smart move having a mole on the project," Zavala said with unveiled admiration.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
623
2.9
A person who secretly collects information for a government or company
201
7.3
A person who works as a secret agent or detective
165
5.6
A person who secretly gives information to police, journalists, or researchers
68
9.1
A person secretly placed in a group to deceive others
33
3.7
A person who works for the government to collect and report secret information about threats to the country
27
3.4
A person who gathers hidden information for a government about enemies
18
4.1
A person who works secretly for the police to gather information while hiding who they are
18
4.9
A spy who secretly works for two opposing sides while pretending to help one and giving secrets to the other
13
3.0
A person who secretly works for a government to get information about the country's safety
12
8.2
A person who secretly enters a place to get secret information or cause harm
3
8.9
A person who secretly gives information to the police
2
7.5
A person who secretly gathers and gives information to another country
1
9.9
A person who secretly helps an enemy inside their country
1
5.8
A person who secretly gets information for another country or company
1
8.7
A person who secretly tells the police about other people's crimes
A person who works secretly inside another group to get information
A person who secretly tells the police about crimes
Antonyms
Compounds
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9.9
A small mole from eastern North America with soft fur that lives mostly underground
- South African
1
9.9
A small burrowing mammal from western Africa that lives in underground colonies
1
7.3
A small almost hairless African animal that lives underground in large groups like ants
- Specialized
A small mole with a long pointed snout that lives underground and eats insects
A small burrowing animal from eastern Asia that looks like a shrew and a mole
- Australian
A small Australian animal that lives underground and carries its babies in a pouch
A small brownish-black animal like a frog that lives underground and comes out to lay eggs
A large insect with strong front legs that digs tunnels in soft soil and eats plant roots
- South African
A small animal from southern Africa that lives underground and has shiny fur
- Specialized
A small animal that lives underground with a short furry tail found in eastern North America
- Specialized
A pregnancy condition where tissue grows into many fluid-filled sacs instead of a baby
- Specialized
A rare growth in the womb during early pregnancy that forms fluid-filled cysts and often causes loss of the baby
- Specialized
A larger female in a colony of naked mole rats who is the only one to have babies
- Australian
A small Australian burrowing animal with a pouch for its young that looks like a mole
A small mole found in eastern North America that lives in water and has many pink tentacles on its nose
A small North American mole that lives in wet ground with a pink nose of many tentacles to find food
How Embedded
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mole (spy) is a comparison with the animal: just as a mole works secretly underground, a mole in an organization hides and secretly passes information to another group.