Usually means: Underground tunnel created by animals.
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  1. burrow: Merriam-Webster
  2. burrow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burrow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. burrow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. burrow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Burrow, burrow: Wordnik
  7. burrow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Burrow, burrow: Wiktionary
  9. burrow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. burrow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. burrow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. burrow: Dictionary.com
  13. burrow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. burrow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Burrow (disambiguation), Burrow, The Burrow (Harry Potter), The Burrow (short story), The Burrow (story): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Burrow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. burrow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. burrow: Rhymezone
  19. burrow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. burrow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. burrow: FreeDictionary.org
  22. burrow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. burrow: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. burrow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. burrow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. burrow: Legal dictionary

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  1. burrow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. burrow: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. burrow (v.): Cats

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. burrow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. burrow: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See burrowed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
noun:  (mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
verb:  (intransitive) to dig a tunnel or hole
verb:  (intransitive) (with adverbial of direction) to move underneath or press up against in search of safety or comfort
verb:  (intransitive) (with into) to investigate thoroughly
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Obsolete form of barrow. A mound. [(obsolete) A mountain.]
noun:  Obsolete form of borough. An incorporated town. [(obsolete) A fortified town.]

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