BURROWED Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

burrowed

verb

past tense of burrow

as in clawed

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as in crouched

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Verb

After one unit went offline, the Romanian navy blasted riverbed rocks, dredged the channel, and sank barges filled with stones in an attempt to divert more water toward the plant and keep the other unit operating.

— , CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026
Astor’s body was dredged from the drink, shipped from Nova Scotia to New York, and attended to by Crandall with such deftness that his funeral featured a public viewing.

— John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

Definition of dredged

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The impact excavated pristine materials from below the lunar surface that have escaped weathering from the solar wind, galactic cosmic rays, and micrometeorites.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026
Assistant Town Engineer Matt Gavelek said that the problems were created because, contrary to the town’s instructions, a large area of land was excavated.

— Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of excavated

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Once, the tired, poor and huddled masses from all over the world have helped grow this nation, and our beloved city.

— Nancy Hagans, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra have huddled inside their homes for days on end, unable to leave because of the threat posed by Israeli settlers.

— Joseph Krauss, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of huddled

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At the arrow’s impact, the buck hunched and steered dead for the woods.

— Jeff Murray, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2026
At the North Carolina booth, whose display was sponsored in part by a Nascar team, a visitor, his shoulders hunched in anger, asked why the video monitors in the booth originally included images of the Confederate flag.

— Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of hunched

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Working in strength coach Rusty Whitt’s demanding program, the 6-foot, 196-pound Jones also squatted and deadlifted 500 pounds.

— Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
Police said Alston and her boyfriend, Halley Tejada, gained access to the Kips Bay apartment Vitels had just moved into on 31st Street and squatted there for two days.

— Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 26 June 2026

Definition of squatted

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His legal team couched the City Council’s move to weaken the mayor’s authority and strip him of privileges as a petty effort to unseat the youngest mayor in the city’s history, and one who has questioned their leadership.

— Reed Williams, AJC.com, 29 July 2026
Yet every bit of critique was couched as serving a larger goal for both of them.

— Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026

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