Synonyms of the word burrow


BURROWDELVE - DIG - HOLE - HOLLOW - TUNNEL

burrow

  • n. A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
  • n. (mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
  • n. Obsolete form of barrow. A mound.
  • n. Obsolete form of borough. An incorporated town.
  • v. To dig a tunnel or hole.

delve

  • v. (intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To dig, to excavate.
  • n. (now rare) A pit or den.

dig

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
  • v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
  • v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
  • v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
  • v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
  • v. To thrust; to poke.
  • v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
  • n. An archeological investigation.
  • n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
  • n. A thrust; a poke.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
  • n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
  • v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
  • v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

hole

  • n. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.;…
  • n. (heading) In games.
  • n. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
  • n. (figuratively) A weakness, a flaw.
  • n. (informal) A container or receptacle.
  • n. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged…
  • n. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
  • n. (slang anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus.
  • n. (Ireland, idiomatic, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
  • n. (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
  • n. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
  • n. (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
  • n. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
  • v. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
  • v. (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
  • v. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
  • v. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
  • v. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
  • v. simple past tense of hele.
  • adj. Obsolete form of whole.

hollow

  • n. A small valley between mountains.
  • n. A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
  • n. (US) A sunken area.
  • n. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
  • v. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate.
  • adj. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
  • adj. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
  • adj. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
  • adj. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
  • adj. concave; gaunt; sunken.
  • adj. (gymnastics) pertaining to hollow body position.
  • adv. (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
  • v. To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
  • interj. Alternative form of hollo.

tunnel

  • n. An underground or underwater passage.
  • n. A passage through or under some obstacle.
  • n. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
  • n. (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported,…
  • n. A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc…
  • n. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
  • n. (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to…
  • v. (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something, to burrow.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a tunnel.

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