burrow

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

burrows

1.
A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
2.
(alt of, obsolete)Obsolete form of barrow (“a mound”).
3.
(alt of, obsolete)Obsolete form of borough (“an incorporated town”).

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verb

V_es/s

burrows

V_ing/Gerund

burrowing

V_ed/pp

burrowed

1.
(intransitive)To dig a tunnel or hole.
2.
(intransitive)(intransitive, with an adverbial of direction) To move underneath or press up against in search of safety or comfort.
The young girl burrowed into the bed.
3.
(intransitive)(intransitive, with into) To investigate thoroughly.
The journalist burrowed into the origins of the mayor's corruption.

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro ine-pro From Middle English borowe, borewe, borwȝ, burȝe, burh, burye (refuge for an animal, lair, burrow), apparently a variant of burgh (see borough) and thus from Old English burh, from *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (stronghold, city), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (high), but this sense is not known in burh. Compare, however, Dutch cognate burcht, which has a similar sense.