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
The patter, delivered in Mr. Silven’s smooth, slightly burred voice, is a little pat, as when he intones, “By coincidence, by fate, by destiny, a group of you have come together to predict the improbable.”
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2017
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
In the slow, burred speech of his seafaring west-of-England ancestors, one dazzled visitor exclaimed: "We want time foor arl thus luvverly flowery growth to be thought upon."
From Time Magazine Archive
The shaft should be burred up against the head of these keys with a chisel, so as to prevent the keys from coming back of their own accord.
From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.
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