The aardvark has powerful limbs and sharp claws so it can burrow into earth at high speed.
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Burrow
//ˈbʌɹoʊ//
Synonyms for "burrow" (148 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Verb(1 words)
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15 entriesTranslations
97 translations across 50 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φωλεός noun (a tunnel or hole)
Arabic
3 entries- جُحْر noun (a tunnel or hole)
- دَوْلَج noun (a tunnel or hole)
- سَرَب noun (a tunnel or hole)
Belarusian
1 entries- нара́ noun (a tunnel or hole)
Bulgarian
4 entries- ду́пка noun (a tunnel or hole)
- ду́пка в земя́та noun (a tunnel or hole)
- изравям verb (to dig a hole)
- ровя verb (to dig a hole)
Catalan
1 entries- cau noun (a tunnel or hole)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 地洞 noun (a tunnel or hole)
Czech
1 entries- nora noun (a tunnel or hole)
Danish
1 entries- jordhule noun (a tunnel or hole)
Dutch
4 entries- burcht noun (a tunnel or hole)
- hol noun (a tunnel or hole)
- graven verb (to dig a hole)
- wroeten verb (to dig a hole)
Esperanto
2 entries- terkavo noun (a tunnel or hole)
- fosi verb (to dig a hole)
Estonian
1 entries- tuhnima verb (to dig a hole)
Finnish
2 entries- kolo noun (a tunnel or hole)
- kaivaa verb (to dig a hole)
French
2 entries- clapier noun (a tunnel or hole)
- terrier noun (a tunnel or hole)
Galician
4 entries- caustra noun (a tunnel or hole)
- latebra noun (a tunnel or hole)
- manida noun (a tunnel or hole)
- muraqueira noun (a tunnel or hole)
Georgian
1 entries- სორო noun (a tunnel or hole)
German
2 entries- Bau noun (a tunnel or hole)
- graben verb (to dig a hole)
Hebrew
3 entries- חור noun (a tunnel or hole)
- מאורה noun (a tunnel or hole)
- מחילה noun (a tunnel or hole)
Hindi
1 entries- बिल noun (a tunnel or hole)
Hungarian
3 entries- járat noun (a tunnel or hole)
- lyuk noun (a tunnel or hole)
- üreg noun (a tunnel or hole)
Irish
2 entries- poll noun (a tunnel or hole)
- uachais noun (a tunnel or hole)
Italian
4 entries- buca noun (a tunnel or hole)
- covo noun (a tunnel or hole)
- cunicolo noun (a tunnel or hole)
- tana noun (a tunnel or hole)
Japanese
2 entries- 巣穴 noun (a tunnel or hole)
- 穴 noun (a tunnel or hole)
Kazakh
1 entries- ін noun (a tunnel or hole)
Khakas
1 entries- ін noun (a tunnel or hole)
Korean
2 entries- 굴 noun (a tunnel or hole)
- 소굴 noun (a tunnel or hole)
Latin
1 entries- hola noun (a tunnel or hole)
Lithuanian
3 entries- ola noun (a tunnel or hole)
- urvas noun (a tunnel or hole)
- kasti verb (to dig a hole)
Macedonian
2 entries- дупка noun (a tunnel or hole)
- дупка в земјата noun (a tunnel or hole)
Manx
1 entries- towl noun (a tunnel or hole)
Māori
4 entries- rua noun (a tunnel or hole)
- tūrua noun (a tunnel or hole)
- unu noun (a tunnel or hole)
- apu verb (to dig a hole)
Ojibwe
2 entries- waanzh noun (a tunnel or hole)
- waazh noun (a tunnel or hole)
Old Czech
1 entries- jězvina noun (a tunnel or hole)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- این noun (a tunnel or hole)
Polish
4 entries- jama noun (a tunnel or hole)
- nora noun (a tunnel or hole)
- tunel noun (a tunnel or hole)
- kopać verb (to dig a hole)
Portuguese
3 entries- toca noun (a tunnel or hole)
- túnel noun (a tunnel or hole)
- cavar verb (to dig a hole)
Romanian
1 entries- vizuină noun (a tunnel or hole)
Russian
1 entries- нора́ noun (a tunnel or hole)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- jazbina noun (a tunnel or hole)
- јазбина noun (a tunnel or hole)
Slovak
1 entries- nora noun (a tunnel or hole)
Slovene
1 entries- jazbina noun (a tunnel or hole)
Spanish
4 entries- madriguera noun (a tunnel or hole)
- ratonera noun (a tunnel or hole)
- cavar verb (to dig a hole)
- socavar verb (to dig a hole)
Swedish
3 entries- gryt noun (a tunnel or hole)
- håla noun (a tunnel or hole)
- jordkula noun (a tunnel or hole)
Tagalog
1 entries- lungga noun (a tunnel or hole)
Tarifit
1 entries- axbuš noun (a tunnel or hole)
Thai
1 entries- รู noun (a tunnel or hole)
Tibetan
1 entries- ས་འོག་ཚ་ཁུང noun (a tunnel or hole)
Turkish
1 entries- in noun (a tunnel or hole)
Ukrainian
1 entries- нора́ noun (a tunnel or hole)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hang noun (a tunnel or hole)
Welsh
1 entries- twll noun (a tunnel or hole)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Disturbed away from its burrow, the aardvark can escape its enemies by digging at incredible speed.
Source: tatoeba (5444775)
We tempted the old fox away from its burrow.
Source: tatoeba (6453604)
Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out. It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky.
Source: tatoeba (6606609)
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