Word Confusion: Borough vs Burro vs Burrow

Plural: boroughs

Plural: burros

Plural for the noun: burrows

Third person present verb: burrows
Past tense or past participle: burrowed
Present participle: burrowing

• [British] A town (as distinct from a city) with a corporation and privileges granted by a royal charter
• [British; historical] A town sending representatives to Parliament
• [British; formerly] A fortified town organized as and having some of the powers of an independent country
• An incorporated municipality in certain US states
• Each of five administrative divisions of New York City
• [In Alaska] A district corresponding to a county elsewhere in the US

Any donkey

A place of retreat

• Shelter or refuge

[Medical] A passage or gallery formed in or under the skin by the wandering of a parasite (as the mite of scabies or a foreign hookworm)

• A sinus or fistula

Verb, intransitive:
[Of an animal] Make a hole, tunnel, or passage in, into, or under something, typically for use as a dwelling

• [With adverbial of direction] Advance into or through something solid by digging or making a hole
• [With adverbial of direction] Move underneath or press close to something in order to hide oneself or in search of comfort
• Make a thorough inquiry
• Investigate

To lodge in a hole, tunnel, or shelter

To hide

To undermine or create a tunnel or tract through or beneath various tissue planes

Verb, transitive:
[Of an animal] Make a hole, tunnel, or passage in, into, or under something, typically for use as a dwelling

• To make by or as if by digging

To hide (oneself), as in a hole, tunnel, or shelter

To undermine or create a tunnel or tract through or beneath various tissue planes

There are 16 places up for grabs on the youth forum, two for each of the county’s districts and boroughs.

He received various pensions, grants, and sinecures from the crown, was a member of parliament for the borough of Warwick, and frequently served abroad.

Avonmore primary, a state school in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, came 19th, with an aggregate score of 266.

Erie was incorporated as a borough in 1805, having previously formed a part of Mill Creek Township; divided into two wards in 1840; granted a city charter in 1851; and, divided into four wards in 1858.

The NYPD patrols the five boroughs of New York City.

Stretching from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to the easternmost Aleutian Islands, the Aleutians East Borough is like no other place on earth.

Excess numbers of horses and burros pose a threat to wildlife, livestock, the improvement of range conditions, and ultimately their own survival.

Others certainly consider the Swell — with its scenic geology, archaeological sites, wild horses, burros, and Utah’s largest herd of desert bighorn sheep — a special place.

His duties included the care and management of the warren, a securely fenced area for rabbit burrows.

The animal had to retreat from its previous burrow basally and start burrowing again nearby.

Burrows “appear as serpiginous, grayish, threadlike elevations in the superficial epidermis” (Barry).

Verb, intransitive:
The moles were burrowing away underground.

Those are the kind of worms that burrow through dead wood.

The child burrowed deeper into the bed.

Journalists are burrowing into the president’s business affairs.

“Intense itching occurs in the area where the mite burrows” (Scabies).

Verb, transitive:
The fish can burrow a hiding place.

The chipmunks are burrowing a cozy hole for the winter.

The tunnel burrows its way under the mountain.

I was burrowed in his cave.

We burrowed our way through the crowd.

The mites burrow into the skin to live and deposit eggs.