burrow (into)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrow (into)
Verb
  • While significant skin laxity usually requires surgical intervention, filler can be used in GLP-1 patients with midface hollowing, says Dr. Basu.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Oct. 2025
  • First, carve a wide mouth out of the top of a large gourd and then thoroughly hollow it out.
    Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Such impacts can excavate craters tens of feet across, even from meteoroids weighing just a few pounds.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The Wondras were identified as suspects three years ago by Fruitland Police Chief JD Huff after law enforcement excavated their backyard, searching the area for human remains.
    Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Related diseases come from isotopes in the nuclear fallout that can penetrate the human body and cause mutations in DNA, according to a 2024 paper from the American Society of Clinical Oncology Journal.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • This play can penetrate the walls of people's homes and their personal experiences in such intimate ways.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Sometimes lightning hits the mountainside and splits or burns a tree.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Jeanty, initially lined up in the right slot, motioned into the backfield, leaving Bowers and wide receiver Jakobi Meyers lined up to that side, with receivers Tyler Lockett and Tre Tucker split to the left.
    Michael Silver, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • At least the climactic pandemonium has some of that old REC intensity; Plaza dynamically orchestrates the violence, dazzling the eyes of his audience one minute, gouging the eyes of his characters the next.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Ella’s son is now 7 and sometimes traipses downstairs to gouge his grandparents’ cereal collection.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And perhaps Edwards’ absence will force the likes of Naz Reid, Jaden McDaniels and Donte DiVincenzo to find more consistent offense grooves out of necessity and volume.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2025
  • And people are grooving, people are dancing, people are moving, people are touching, people are feeling, people are smiling, and that's a good feeling.
    Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Rey was out of action since April after suffering a torn groin and ruptured eardrum while in a six-man tag match with American Made and LWO.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • And the lesions were more stable, the kind less likely to rupture and cause heart attacks.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The killer slit Catherine's throat with a razor so severely that her head was nearly severed before striking them both with an axe, per the Times-Picayune.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The next morning, when Morse arrived for work, Nicholson stabbed her repeatedly and slit her throat before placing her body inside a large plastic bin in the kitchen pantry, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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“Burrow (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrow%20%28into%29. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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