bunker
Fortified underground chamber
A bunker is a reinforced shelter, typically underground or partially buried, designed to protect occupants from bombs, artillery, or other attacks.
Military bunkers house troops or equipment; civilian bunkers provide protection during air raids or nuclear threats.
In golf, a bunker is a sand-filled hazard on the course, also called a sand trap.
To bunker down means to take refuge or prepare to withstand difficulty.
The family bunkered in the basement during the tornado warning.
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
- trenchLong narrow excavation
- barricadeObstacle blocking a path
- strongholdFortified place of defense
- redoubtEnclosed temporary fortification
garrison · outpost · artillery · camouflage · entrenchment · parapet · ammunition · warfare
Place of safety
- sanctuaryProtected sacred space
- havenShelter from danger
- safehouseSecure secret shelter
- hideoutSecret place of refuge
fallout · survival · apocalypse · doomsday · prepper · underground · stockpile · emergency
Oily Atlantic baitfish
- baitfishSmall prey fish for angling
- oilyCovered in grease
- AtlanticOcean bordering Europe
- fishingCatching aquatic creatures
chum · forage fish · reduction · fish oil · fertilizer
Golf course hazard
- hazardSource of potential harm
- greensideAround the putting surface
- fairwayGroomed golf strip
- roughUneven in surface
wedge · chip · sand · lie · blast · plugged · fried egg · rake
Left behind completely
- derelictAbandoned or neglectful
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- SovietOf the USSR
- explorationTraveling through unknown regions
infiltration · decay · graffiti · concrete · ruin · wartime · historical · relic
fortification
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
- trenchLong narrow excavation
- barricadeObstacle blocking a path
- strongholdFortified place of defense
redoubt · garrison · outpost · artillery · camouflage · entrenchment · parapet · ammunition · warfare · tactical
refuge
Place of safety
hideout · fallout · survival · apocalypse · doomsday · prepper · underground · stockpile · emergency · radiation
menhaden
Oily Atlantic baitfish
fishing · chum · forage fish · reduction · fish oil · fertilizer
sandtrap
Golf course hazard
rough · wedge · chip · sand · lie · blast · plugged · fried egg · rake · lip
abandoned
Left behind completely
exploration · infiltration · decay · graffiti · concrete · ruin · wartime · historical · relic · forgotten
fuel
Energy source material
silo · depot · stockpile · reserve · refueling · hold · bin · container · nautical · vessel
- defensedefense, defending, protecting, protection, security
- fortificationsfort, fortress, fortresses, citadel, citadels
- secure placesprison, jail, vault, bank vault, fortress
- storage placeswarehouse, vault, storage unit, container, silo
- secret lairslair, hideout, underground base, hidden chamber, fortress
- coastal defensesseawall, seawalls, sea wall, sea walls, breakwater
bunkeropen ground
open field · no man's land · killing field · clearing · vulnerability
bunkerwatchtower
Elevated structure for surveillance
observation tower · tower · high ground · observation post · elevated platform
- bunk bedVertically stacked sleeping frames
- top bunk
- underground bunkerReinforced subterranean refuge
- bunker downShelter in place protectively
- nuclear bunkerRadiation-proof underground refuge
- bunker mentalityExtreme collective defensiveness
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