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Burrowing

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Burrowing"

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Word	Definition
tunnelnoun	An underground or underwater passage.
fossorialnoun	(zoology) Of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing.
effodient	(archaic, rare) involving digging up.
diggingnoun	The action performed by a person or thing that digs.
dennoun	A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
subterraneannoun	Below ground, under the earth, underground.
digverb	(transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
excavationnoun	(uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
landfillnoun	(countable) A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth.
burialnoun	The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.
buryingnoun	A burial.
embedmentnoun	The act of embedding or the state of being embedded.
disposalnoun	(countable) A disposing of or getting rid of something.
owlnoun	Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes, families Strigidae and Tytonidae, that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing.
bivalvesnoun	Any mollusc belonging to the taxonomic class Bivalvia, characterized by a shell consisting of two hinged sections, such as a scallop, clam, mussel or oyster.
landfillingnoun	(countable) A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth.
owls	an indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois.
tunnelingnoun	The act of burrowing a tunnel.
incavationnoun	The act of making hollow.
entrenchmentnoun	The process of entrenching or something which entrenches