Synonyms for bunker
ˈbʌŋ kərbunker

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1. bunker, sand trap, trapnoun

   a hazard on a golf course

   Synonyms:
   trap, cakehole, lying in wait, sand trap, yap, dugout, ambuscade, snare, hole, gob, ambush, maw

2. bunkernoun

   a large container for storing fuel

   "the ship's bunkers were full of coal"

   Synonyms:
   sand trap, trap, dugout

3. bunker, dugoutverb

   a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground

   Synonyms:
   pirogue, dugout canoe, sand trap, trap, dugout

4. bunkerverb

   hit a golf ball into a bunker

5. bunkerverb

   fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil

6. bunkerverb

   transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse

Matched Categories

1. • Container
   • Fuel
   • Hit
   • Transfer

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1. bunkernoun

   Synonyms:
   bin, crib

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1. bunkernoun

   Synonyms:
   bin, receptacle, crib

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1. List of paraphrases for "bunker":

   pillbox, hatch, bunkering, lockdown, blockhouse, fuel

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1. Andrea Rocchelli:

   When we saw those photos of the children in the bunker.

2. Bayan Rehan:

   Entire families were killed in the bunkers. I lost the connection with my family because my house is close to the location of the explosion, i couldn't hear anything from them until today morning because of the bad Internet connection. They told me that they had moved an hour before the chemical attack into a bunker which was away from our house; they were lucky to survive.

3. Bruce Klingner of Heritage Foundation:

   Putting US nukes back on the peninsula makes no military sense, they currently are on very hard to find, very hard to target weapons platforms and to take weapons off of them and put them into a bunker in South Korea, which is a very enticing target for North Korea, what you’ve done is you’ve degraded your capabilities.

4. Larry Hall:

   Our clients are sold on the unique advantage of having a luxury second home that also happens to be a nuclear hardened bunker, this aspect allows our clients to invest in an appreciating asset as opposed to an expense.

5. Peter Keller:

   In 2017, there was only one bunker vessel for LNG anywhere in the world. Today, there are five and 14 more on order.