Movement
Synonyms for burrow
The synonym for burrow recorded in this bank is tunnel, in the sense "move through by or as by digging". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for burrow
- tunnelverb, in the sense "move through by or as by digging"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and burrow carries one sense so far.
move through by or as by digging
Burrow through the forest.
The true synonym
tunnel
Same sentence, swapped: Tunnel through the forest.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- rut
- rout
- squat
Where burrow turns up in the game
burrow is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where burrow is the trap
- slitherverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is slide, in the sense "to move smoothly with a twisting or sliding motion, as a snake does", and burrow is one of the three tiles that lose.
- scamperverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is scurry, in the sense "to run with quick light steps, especially in a playful or hurried way", and burrow is on the board beside it.
Play burrow
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Closest first: other movement words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. burrow carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.