burrowed
past simple and past participle ofburrow
burrow
verb
uk/ˈbʌr.əʊ/us/ˈbɝː.oʊ/[Iusually+ adv/prep]
todigaholein theground,especiallytolivein:
Rats had burrowedintothebankof theriver.
[T+ adv/prep]
tomoveyourself into apositionwhere you canfeelwarm,comfortable, orsafe:
Suddenlyshy,ouryoungdaughterburrowed herheadintomyshoulder.
[I+ adv/prep]
tosearchfor something, as if bydigging:
I burrowedthroughtheclothesin thedrawerlookingfor acleanpairofsocks.
Digging
- borer
- break groundidiom
- burrow
- dig
- dig(yourself)in
- digsomeone/somethingout
- drill
- excavate
- excavator
- furrow
- grub
- mine
- plough
- ploughsomethingback/in
- quarry
- redrill
- root
- rootsomethingout/up
- sink
- tunnel
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Comfortable and uncomfortable
Searching
Examplesofburrowed
burrowed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Here the soil was black and crumbly, so damp that wormsburrowedit all year round.
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The following day it was confirmed that all cockles hadburrowedand were filtering.
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It is also true that none of the instruments described above hasburrowedbelow the surface and analysed unoxidized material.
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In most instances, the larvae hadburrowedthrough the petals into the centre of the flowers, evidenced by clearly visible holes in the petals.
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Most invertebrates of soft-sediment shores live either freelyburrowedinto the sediments or construct more or less permanent tubes, relying mainly on surface water for oxygen.
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The table shows the results, and it is seen that in both species more larvaeburrowedin coarse than in fine sand, and more in sand than in wood ash.
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There was one old man who was found quite recently living for shelter in a hole that heburrowedin a haystack.
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Weburrowedaway, and the conclusions that we reached are spelt out in the latter half of the report.
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They hadburrowedin—so that he had not found a hole—and had cleared the pond.
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Today we humans haveburroweddeep.
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Those were the difficulties that we found ourselves in, and so our committees went on burrowing forward industriously, and the more weburrowedthe less could we see.
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Old and newer mining operations haveburrowedunder schools and under whole communities.
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The young larvae, ammocoetes, spend several years in the rivers, where they liveburrowedin fine sediment, filter feeding on detritus and microorganisms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The remaining four radicalsburrowedinto a pile of futon bedding and refused to surrender.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Arthropleurids lived in the moist coal swamps that were common at the time and may haveburrowedin the undergrowth.
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- grouting
- grove
- grovel
- groves-of-academe
- grow
- grow apart
- grow-apart
- growbag
- grower
- grow house
- grow-house
- growing
- growing acceptance
- growing anger
- growing appreciation
- growing awareness
- growing backlog
- growing burden
- growing collection
- growing competition
- growing complexity
- growing concentration
- growing concern
- growing confidence
- growing congestion