The aardvark has powerful limbs and sharp claws so it can burrow into earth at high speed.
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Burrow
/ˈbʌɹoʊ/
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Disturbed away from its burrow, the aardvark can escape its enemies by digging at incredible speed.
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We tempted the old fox away from its burrow.
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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.
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