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🌌 A space tunnel 🕳️ A small hole 🚀 To travel instantly
to wormhole

to wormhole

1 9.6
To send something through a tunnel in space to reach distant places
  • verb
  • /ˈwɜrmhoʊl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : transportar por un agujero de gusano
  • To reach the distant star, the crew decided to wormhole through an interdimensional portal.

Examples

  • The spaceship will wormhole to another galaxy in just a few moments.

  • We cannot wormhole travel in the middle of this.

    After Earth (2013)

  • In the movie, the scientists discovered a way to wormhole from one planet to another instantaneously.

Synonyms

to tunnel
vsto wormhole
23 3.5

To dig a passage under something

involves imagined instantaneous transport across space rather than slow physical travel

Surface Forms

wormhole infinitive
wormholed past participle
wormholing present participle

Etymology

Wormhole as a verb comes from the noun, and to wormhole something means to send it through a 'wormhole' in science fiction, so to wormhole somewhere is to move there by that imagined space 'shortcut'.