BURROW meaning: Underground tunnel created by animals

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word burrow:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

burrow: Merriam-Webster.com
burrow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
burrow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
burrow: Collins English Dictionary
burrow: Vocabulary.com
Burrow, burrow: Wordnik
burrow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Burrow, burrow: Wiktionary
burrow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
burrow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
burrow: Infoplease Dictionary
burrow: Dictionary.com
burrow: Online Etymology Dictionary
burrow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Burrow (disambiguation), Burrow, The Burrow (Harry Potter), The Burrow (short story), The Burrow (story): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Burrow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
burrow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
burrow: Rhymezone
burrow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
burrow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
burrow: Free Dictionary
burrow: Mnemonic Dictionary
Burrow, burrow: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
burrow: Dictionary/thesaurus
burrow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

burrow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

burrow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

burrow (v.): Cats

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

burrow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
burrow: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.]

Similar:

tunnel, trench, burrhole, crawlway, boring, beanhole, bunny, subterrene, digger, vugg, more...

Opposite:

mound

Types:

warren, lair, set, den, more...

Phrases:

rabbit burrow, burrow duck, Joe Burrow, Rob Burrow, Jim Burrow, more...

Adjectives:

same, own, underground, deep, shaped, small, old, main, single, shallow, long

Colors:

brown, tan, sienna, umber, ochre, taupe, sand, chestnut, mahogany, rust

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