Etymology
Origin of burred
Example Sentences
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Her voice is low and gently burred, her affect is a funky mix of playfulness and precision.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2020
Camera shutters burred; the guizers yelled; and the longship, traveling in the opposite direction, scythed through the fire like a ghostly spectre.
From Slate • Oct. 30, 2015
Mr. Starr has a skinny, burred voice that sounds as if he were quivering, and when the guitarist Paul Jackson chimes in with high harmony vocals, as on “Six Ways to Sunday,” it’s bracing.
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2012
If your edges are burred, they'll be way more likely to catch-so, Sam, go ahead and use a stone.
From Time Magazine Archive
And chestnuts too! burred from the spring's long flowers; June's, when their tree-tops streamed delirious showers Of blossoming silver, cool, crepuscular, And like a nebulous radiance shone afar.—
From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
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