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burrow

noun as in hole dug by animal

verb as in dig a hole

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Rats live in drains, sewers and burrows, and emerge mostly at night, so counting them is nearly impossible and estimates on rat population figures vary.

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Ella is fiercely committed to her job, burrowing into the minutiae of legislation to become deeply connected to it emotionally.

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England finished the half, turning down a kick at goal and seeming to turn out the lights on the contest when Cowan-Dickie burrowed over from the subsequent driven line-out.

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According to him, he had indeed burrowed into a trove of data from a large materials-science company, as his paper said he did.

And, in the San Francisco Bay Area, burrowing rodents may be digging into entombed trash at a landfill-turned-park, unloosing explosive levels of methane.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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