I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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In burrowing down , the fish made a tube through the mud an inch or so across.
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She had flattened the grass, burrowed down and made a cosy little nest for herself.
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With that thought, once Peter had left she switched out the bedside lamp and burrowed down .
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He burrowed down in his seat again, wishing he had a black moustache and a false nose.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The gophers were busy burrowing holes.
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The rabbits had burrowed a hole under the fence.
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Toads burrow into the earth to hide from their enemies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But still they tell them, suggesting how deeply the stories have burrowed into their psyches.
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He threw everything out, clothes, shoes, old wellingtons, burrowing underneath all the mess like an overgrown mole.
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Hundreds of parishioners were working with bare hands, shovels and harrows, extending the church by burrowing out a crypt.
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It lays its eggs in your clothes while they are drying on the line and then they burrow into the skin.
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One group have lost their legs altogether and taken to burrowing underground.
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Orange flames burrowed through the grass.
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The footing corals start to anchor down on the loose rocks, and the subterranean sponges burrow underneath.
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The small mammals alive at this time did not hibernate, but had insulating fur and could burrow underground.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
system
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Some hedgerow stops are often the beginnings of a new burrow system once the doe and her young move out.
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All my young ferrets get a similar introduction to give them the necessary experience for bigger operations within major burrow systems .
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She may have emerged from the burrow system unnoticed and either slipped away under cover or escaped into an adjoining burrow system.
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So loose ferrets are released into the burrow system , one being introduced, if numbers permit, into each major entrance.
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She may have emerged from the burrow system unnoticed and either slipped away under cover or escaped into an adjoining burrow system.
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Just as some burrow systems are easier to work than others, some contain more rabbits than others.
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Your main safeguard is to ensure that the remaining rabbits can not escape back into the burrow system .
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They are not underground for any of a number of reasons - or they may be underground in another burrow system altogether.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During the day they retreat into shallow burrows a few centimetres below the ground.
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From the parental burrow Leadville was so far away it was only half real.
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In 1951, some nesting burrows, occupied, were found on islets near Castle Roads.
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The swallows dig their burrows here in the sand every year.
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Then it stays in the burrow alone, visited only at feeding times, for nearly two months.
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They are largely nocturnal, spending their days either down the burrows or out at sea gliding on stiff wings.
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Underfoot, a soggy tiger-trap of a burrow roof gives in like brown sugar.
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You think it's bad here in the burrow ?