Crossword clues for burrowed
burrowed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burrow \Bur"row\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Burrowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Burrowing.]
To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.
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To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.
Sir, this vermin of court reporters, when they are forced into day upon one point, are sure to burrow in another.
--Burke.Burrowing owl (Zo["o]l.), a small owl of the western part of North America ( Speotyto cunicularia), which lives in holes, often in company with the prairie dog.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: burrow)
Usage examples of "burrowed".
He shook his head slowly and hugged her tight when she burrowed into his arms for comfort.
She burrowed her way into the packages until only her head and her shoulders were jammed against the side of the box, her feet propped against the lower end and her knees under her chin.
Hastily, Gallup and Walters burrowed into the sand and covered their heads with their arms.
Channa burrowed deeper into his embrace, sighing like someone relieved of a pain they did not know they suffered.
Those would be under the crater's surface, or burrowed into the mountains on either side.
They passed innumerable cheap hostels burrowed back into the rock, CHEAP ROOMS and CLEAN BEDS blinking in holographic colors outside their barred doors.
He burrowed his face into her neck, entreating the comfort that she never denied him.
But where the stalactites and stalagmites had been were only round craters, and sometimes small tunnels, like the holes of giant snakes, burrowed deep into the rock walls.
More avians, or perhaps the same ones on a return trip, brought trundle-bugs and sandworms which flopped or burrowed in the weeds.
Snapper reappeared and burrowed into his shoulder, wrapping his tail around Red’s neck, and Red stroked the little beast, sensing its sorrow and need to be comforted.
For Thread, a space-traveling mycorrhizoid spore, devoured with mindless voracity all organic matter and, once grounded, burrowed and proliferated with terrifying speed.
Fear burrowed from the trap in his mind to which Alessan had banished it.
For Thread, a space, traveling mycorrhizoid spore, devoured with mindless voracity all organic matter and, once grounded, burrowed and proliferated with terrifying speed.
He gripped my thighs so fiercely I had to bite my lips to suppress a cry, but then he burrowed his head in my lap, convulsed by this grief.
There was one drudge whose sole job was to dust and oil the leather-bound Records, and check that no insects had burrowed into the hide pages.