burrowed

verb

past tense of burrow
1
as in clawed

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2
as in crouched

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrowed
  1. dredged
  2. crouched
  3. excavated
  4. huddled
  5. hunched
  6. squatted
  7. couched
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  • The fries here are great, but even better are the gluten-free onion rings, dredged in the same distinctive cornmeal coating used for the seafood.
    — Luke Pyenson, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026
  • It’s then dredged in seasoned flour—key for both browning and flavor—before pan-frying in a mixture of olive oil and butter.
    — Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 21 June 2026
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  • Every few feet, the cats stopped and sat on their hindquarters, or crouched down out of sight.
    — Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
  • After getting broken to fall behind 2-4 in the third, Djokovic attempted to knock a ball back to the ball boy, who was crouched beside the umpire’s chair.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of crouched
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  • The women were originally excavated during the late 19th century from within the funerary complex at Dahshur, an ancient Egyptian necropolis featuring some of the oldest, largest, and best preserved pyramids in Giza.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 July 2026
  • When Princess Ita’s final resting place was first excavated by French archeologist Jacques de Morgan in the late 1800s, Ita was somewhat of an afterthought, Hashesh says.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 17 July 2026
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  • All around him, young men and women huddled together, warming their cold hands on hot coffee cups.
    — Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
  • One year and two days after Walker started his program in Springfield, the Cardinals huddled in the visiting clubhouse at Wrigley Field on July 4.
    — Katie Woo, New York Times, 15 July 2026
Definition of huddled
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  • Kids hunched close to the stage, enraptured, while adults checked their phones on the sidelines.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
  • Acts of kindness are few and far between in the punishing Myanmar textile factory where young San Kyi (Nandar Myat Aung) makes a meager living, hunched over a sewing machine.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 July 2026
Definition of hunched
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  • 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
  • Making a place known Just before noon the following day, Susan Washko squatted over a white plastic tub beside the stream that runs through Fiftymile Canyon.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
Definition of squatted
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  • Yet every bit of critique was couched as serving a larger goal for both of them.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
  • Thankfully, there are self-aware jabs as well, and it’s all couched in a character- and ensemble-centric ending that has hearty portions that help the random sour bite go down smoothly.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 June 2026
Definition of couched
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