| 单词 | to burrow one's way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto burrow one's way c. figurative. To bore, penetrate, or make one's way under the surface; also to burrow one's way. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > become hollow [verb (intransitive)] > burrow under surface burrow1804 terrier1864 1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 169 I have known many diseases which burrow. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 637/1 The ulcer..as it burrows deeply..may perforate the muscular wall. 1852 W. E. Gladstone Functions of Laymen in Church 26 Each local body has to find, I should say rather to burrow, its own way. 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xxiv. 340 To burrow for heresy among the obscurities of thought. 1859 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 2 June in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) vii. 540 We were burrowing through its bewildering passages. < as lemmas |
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