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bury
[ ber-ee ]
verb (used with object)
- to put in the ground and cover with earth:
The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- to put (a corpse) in the ground or a vault, or into the sea, often with ceremony:
They buried the sailor with full military honors.
- to plunge in deeply; cause to sink in:
to bury an arrow in a target.
- to cover in order to conceal from sight:
She buried the card in the deck.
Antonyms: uncover
- to immerse (oneself):
He buried himself in his work.
- to put out of one's mind:
to bury an insult.
- to consign to obscurity; cause to appear insignificant by assigning to an unimportant location, position, etc.:
Her name was buried in small print at the end of the book.
noun
- Nautical. housing 1( def 8a, 8b ).
bury
1/ ˈbɛrɪ /
verb
- to place (a corpse) in a grave, usually with funeral rites; inter
- to place in the earth and cover with soil
- to lose through death
- to cover from sight; hide
- to embed; sink
to bury a nail in plaster
- to occupy (oneself) with deep concentration; engross
to be buried in a book
- to dismiss from the mind; abandon
to bury old hatreds
- bury the hatchetbury the hatchet to cease hostilities and become reconciled
- bury one's head in the sandbury one's head in the sand to refuse to face a problem
Bury
2/ ˈbɛrɪ /
noun
- a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester: an early textile centre. Pop: 60 178 (2001)
- a unitary authority in NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 181 900 (2003 est). Area: 99 sq km (38 sq miles)
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Other Words From
- re·bur·y verb (used with object) reburied reburying
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bury1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bury1
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Idioms and Phrases
- bury one's head in the sand, to avoid reality; ignore the facts of a situation:
You cannot continue to bury your head in the sand—you must learn to face facts.
- bury the hatchet, to become reconciled or reunited.
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Example Sentences
Then they intended to bury her, but she looked more alive than dead, and she still had such pretty red cheeks.
In the special, Workman plays the old man who, as a cabin boy, watched the pirates bury their treasure.
Us is me and Gus, driving our bus across the land; when we die, just bury us together, hand in hand.
The landscape looks something like the marsh behind the Toys ‘R’ Us where Tony Soprano might bury a body in Jersey.
Just days before, the officer told him, 19 bodies of Ebola victims were left lying outside with few men to bury them.
If they are still Moderns and alive, I defy you to bury them if you are discussing living questions in a full and honest way.
The swift breeze seemed to Edna to bury the sting of it into the pores of her face and hands.
Two years before her death Mrs. Otis was glad to bury her mortification and misery in Rosewater.
Meanwhile Benny looked on with great delight as Watch tried to bury his bone with only one paw to dig with.
Since the number of casualties was extremely high during this battle, Jackson allowed Banks to bury his dead the following day.
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