An industrious rabbit digs me beneath the spring turf as a dark tunnel retreat, but swap one vowel sound and I mean taking an item that you intend to give back. What am I?
A burrow
A 'burrow' is a rabbit's underground hole, which is an exact homophone/near-twin of 'borrow'.
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