mole
[noun]
Synonyms: birthmark, nevus

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English Thesaurus: blemish, mole, freckles, birthmark, bruise, ...

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Mole, A‧dri‧an /ˈeɪdriən/
the main character in a series of humorous British books written by Sue Townsend, the first of which was The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (1982). Each book is in the form of a diary in which Adrian writes about his daily life and thoughts. He describes many of the emotional problems that are typical of people his age.

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mole /məʊl $ moʊl/ noun [countable]

1. a small dark furry animal which is almost blind. Moles usually live under the ground.

2. a small dark brown mark on the skin that is slightly higher than the skin around it

3. someone who works for an organization while secretly giving information to its enemies

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mole
noun
I. animal
MOLE + VERB dig, burrow, tunnel

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mole
II. person
VERB + MOLE plant They suspected that a mole had been planted in the organization.

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mole
III. mark on the skin
ADJ. hairy
VERB + MOLE remove

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blemish a mark on your skin that spoils its appearance:
John grew a beard to hide the blemishes on his chin.
mole a small dark, sometimes raised, mark on your skin:
Some moles may become cancerous.
Helena found a mole on her arm which had definitely not been there before.
freckles small light brown marks on your skin, especially on your face but also on your arms, shoulders etc:
She had a light sprinkling of freckles across her nose.
birthmark a permanent mark on your skin that you have had since you were born:
There was a small birthmark on her left cheek.
bruise a purple or brown mark on your skin that you get because you have fallen or been hit:
Her legs were covered in cuts and bruises.
scar a permanent mark on your skin, caused by a cut or by something that burns you:
The injury left a small scar on his forehead.
pimple/zit (also spot British English) a small raised red mark or lump on your skin, which usually appears when a child is between 12 and 18 years old:
When I was a teenager I had terrible spots.
The boy had a few pimples under his chin.
wart a small hard raised mark on your skin caused by a virus:
His face was covered in hairy warts.
blister a small area of skin that is swollen and full of liquid because it has been rubbed or burned:
There was a blister on his arm where the boiling milk had splashed him.
rash an area of small red spots on your skin, caused by an illness or an allergy:
I can’t eat strawberries - they give me a rash.
be badly scarred
Her legs were badly scarred from a car accident.
be permanently scarred
His face had been permanently scarred by smallpox.
be hideously scarred (=in a very unattractive way)
The right side of her face was hideously scarred.
be scarred for life (=get a permanent scar)
A little girl has been scarred for life in a tragic playground accident.
leave somebody scarred
The surgery left her face and neck scarred.

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mark a dirty area on something that spoils its appearance:
The bark of the tree had made black marks on her trousers.
spot a small mark on something:
a grease spot on my shirt
stain a mark that is difficult to remove, especially one made by a dark liquid:
a wine stain on the tablecloth
blood stains
smudge a mark that is made when something touches against a surface:
There was a smudge of lipstick on his cheek.
He had a smudge of chalk on his jacket.
smear a mark that is made by a small amount of something spread across a surface:
The table had a smear of paint on the top.
fingerprint (also fingermark British English) a mark on the surface of something that is made by someone’s fingers:
The glass was covered with greasy fingerprints.
blemish a mark on your skin that spoils its appearance:
John grew a beard to hide the blemishes on his chin.
mole a small dark, sometimes raised, mark on your skin:
Some moles may become cancerous.
Helena found a mole on her arm which had definitely not been there before.
freckles small light brown marks on your skin, especially on your face but also on your arms, shoulders etc:
She had a light sprinkling of freckles across her nose.
birthmark a permanent mark on your skin that you have had since you were born:
There was a small birthmark on her left cheek.
bruise a purple or brown mark on your skin that you get because you have fallen or been hit:
Her legs were covered in cuts and bruises.
scar a permanent mark on your skin, caused by a cut or by something that burns you:
The injury left a small scar on his forehead.
pimple/zit (also spot British English) a small raised red mark or lump on your skin, which usually appears when a child is between 12 and 18 years old:
When I was a teenager I had terrible spots.
The boy had a few pimples under his chin.
wart a small hard raised mark on your skin caused by a virus:
His face was covered in hairy warts.
blister a small area of skin that is swollen and full of liquid because it has been rubbed or burned:
There was a blister on his arm where the boiling milk had splashed him.
rash an area of small red spots on your skin, caused by an illness or an allergy:
I can’t eat strawberries - they give me a rash.

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spy someone whose job is to find out secret information about another country:
Stalin controlled a network of spies.
The film is basically a spy story.
agent/secret agent someone who works for a government or police department in order to get secret information about another country or organization:
a secret agent working for MI5
He is the FBI’s best undercover agent (=one who works secretly and pretends to be someone else).
double agent someone who finds out an enemy country’s secrets for their own country but who also gives secrets to the enemy:
a former CIA double agent who also worked for the KGB
mole someone who works for an organization while secretly giving information to its enemies:
A mole in the government was leaking information to the press.
informer someone who secretly tells the police about criminal activities, especially for money:
Acting on information from an informer, the police raided the house.
espionage the work that spies do:
He is serving a 20-year prison sentence for espionage.
spying the action of secretly collecting information about a person, country, or organization:
Several embassy officials had been arrested for spying.
surveillance activity in which the police, army, etc watch a person or place carefully because they may be connected with criminal activities:
24-hour surveillance of the building
The police have had him under surveillance (=have been watching him)for months.
covert operations secret military activities against an enemy:
These planes are used by British Intelligence for covert operations.

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