Related Words for burrowing

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tunnel
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Noun, Verb
crawling
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Verb
digging
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Noun, Verb
scuttling
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Noun
slithering
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Verb
clawing
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Noun
excavating
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Verb
burying
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Verb
earthworms
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Noun
skittering
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Noun
trapping
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Noun
wriggling
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Noun
gnawing
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Noun
creeping
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Verb
subterranean
xx/xx
Adjective
grubbing
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Adjective
snuffling
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Noun
poking
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Verb
scampering
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Verb
darting
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Verb
gopher
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Noun
hibernating
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Verb
lizard
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Noun
scurrying
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Verb
nestling
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Noun
feeding
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Noun, Verb
foraging
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Noun
scrabbling
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Verb
nibbling
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Verb
arboreal
x/xx
Adjective
crevice
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Noun
wiggling
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Noun
squashing
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Verb
sloughing
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Noun
thrusting
/x
Noun
underground
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Noun, Adjective
rodent
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Noun, Adjective
nesting
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Noun
snails
/
Noun
beetles
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Noun
rooting
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Noun
diving
/x
Noun
roosting
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Noun
crustacean
x/x
Noun
probing
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Noun
burial
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Noun
caving
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Noun
skulking
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Verb
delving
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Verb
penetration
xx/x
Noun
interment
xxx
Noun
exhumation
xx/x
Noun
venturing
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Verb
excavation
xx/x
Noun
sapping
/x
Verb
poring
/x
Verb
tilling
/x
Noun
earthing
/x
Noun
escaping
x/x
Verb
swallowing
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Verb
wading
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Verb
seeping
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Verb
curling
/x
Verb
traversal
x/x
Noun
planting
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Noun
treading
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Verb
subsumption
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Noun
bathing
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Noun
shading
/x
Noun
trampling
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Noun
hatch
/
Noun
resorption
x/x
Noun
drilling
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Noun
trickling
/x
Noun
breaching
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Noun
stalking
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Noun
deepening
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Verb
uncovering
x/xx
Noun
submergence
x/x
Noun
cloaking
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Noun
camouflage
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Noun
leaking
/x
Verb
puncturing
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Verb
laboring
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Noun
wrinkling
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Noun
stooping
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Noun
undermining
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Noun
lumping
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Verb
wintering
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Noun
bridging
/x
Noun
entanglement
x/xx
Noun
plundering
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Noun
smuggling
/x
Noun
indentation
xx/x
Noun
submersion
x/x
Noun
raiding
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Noun
subduction
x/x
Noun
cuddling
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Verb
baring
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Noun
labouring
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Noun
enclosing
x/x
Verb
flattening
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Noun
baiting
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Noun
basking
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Noun
mushrooming
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Noun
shrinking
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Noun
scouting
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Noun
indies
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Name
habits
/x
Noun
organisms
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Noun
disturbed
x/
Verb
animals
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Noun
extensive
x/x
Adjective
adapted
x/x
Verb
accomplished
x/x
Verb
rapid
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Adjective
intense
x/
Adjective
activities
x/xx
Noun
result
x/
Noun
vertical
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Adjective
aquatic
x/x
Adjective, Noun
bivalves
/x
Noun
bodied
/x
Adjective
carnivorous
x/xx
Adjective
clearing
/x
Noun
cutting
/x
Noun, Adjective
den
/
Noun, Verb, Adverb
desert
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
dispersal
x/x
Noun
disposal
x/x
Noun
domesticated
x/xxx
Adjective
dredging
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Noun
dwelling
/x
Noun
eating
/x
Noun, Adjective
erosion
x/x
Noun
folding
/x
Adjective, Noun
gregarious
x/xx
Adjective
herbivorous
x/xx
Adjective
inhabiting
x/xx
Verb
nocturnal
x/x
Adjective, Noun
owl
/
Noun, Verb
patrolling
x/x
Noun
percolation
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Noun
pitting
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Noun
placental
x/x
Adjective, Noun
quarrying
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Noun
scouring
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Noun
searching
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Noun, Adjective
seepage
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Noun
shelled
/
Adjective
subsidence
x/x
Noun
swimming
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Noun
closet
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
bundle
/x
Noun, Verb
stonewall
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Name, Verb, Adjective
aisle
/
Noun
daylight
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Noun, Verb
gloss
/
Noun, Verb
backwater
/xx
Noun, Verb
blow
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
milestone
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Noun, Verb
stovepipe
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Noun, Verb
pidgin
/x
Noun
bog
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
fall
/
Verb, Noun
off
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
die
/
Verb, Noun
butt
/
Noun, Verb