Sekirov Dictionary

burrow

UK /ˈbʌɹəʊ/US /ˈbʌɹoʊ/

verb 3
noun 1
forms 3

verb3

To dig a tunnel or hole.
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To move underneath or press up against in search of safety or comfort.
- The young girl burrowed into the bed.
•
To investigate thoroughly.
- The journalist burrowed into the origins of the mayor's corruption.

noun1

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A tunnel or hole, or a system of tunnels, often as dug by a small creature for use as a home.
- But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in. — 1921

forms

burrowed · burrowing · burrows

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