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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The island, just over 2 miles long, was created in the late 1960s from sand dredged during the deepening of the Elbe shipping channel that serves the port of Hamburg, then left to itself and gradually planted over.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026
The space between the headlands would be filled with sand dredged from just outside the surf line.

— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of dredged

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According to a study published today in the journal PLOS One, pottery shards excavated from the famous Etowah mounds in present-day Georgia contain trace residues of the plant.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Aug. 2026
Once the crews finish their work, Cieslica said in some cases lawns were excavated and reseeded.

— Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of excavated

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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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For most of that session, Melton squatted behind the plate, sweating and catching bullpens for pitchers who had more experience and more college offers.

— Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
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

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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