Bury

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To place in the ground: bury a bone.
  • v. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter.
  • v. To dispose of (a corpse) ritualistically by means other than interment or cremation.
  • v. To conceal by or as if by covering over with earth; hide: buried her face in the pillow; buried the secret deep within himself.
  • v. To occupy (oneself) with deep concentration; absorb: buried myself in my studies.
  • v. To put an end to; abandon: buried their quarrel and shook hands.
  • idiom. bury the hatchet To stop fighting; resolve a quarrel.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To ritualistically inter a corpse in a grave or tomb. (see burial)
  • v. To place in the ground. "bury a bone"
  • v. To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth - "she buried her face in the pillow", "buried the secret deep inside"
  • v. To put an end to; to abandon. "They buried their argument and shook hands"
  • v. To score a goal
  • n. A borough; a manor
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A borough; a manor
  • n. A manor house; a castle.
  • v. To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide.
  • v. Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
  • v. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A castle, manor-house, or habitation; a borough.
  • n. A burrow.
  • n. A camp or heap of turnips or the like, stored up.
  • To deposit and inclose in a grave or tomb, as a dead body; consign to any final resting-place after or as after death; entomb.
  • To cover or conceal from sight; sink or lodge in or under anything: as, to bury treasures in the earth or under rubbish; he buried the dagger in his enemy's heart.
  • Hence To cover up; keep secret; hide; conceal.
  • To withdraw or conceal in retirement: as, lo bury one's self in a monastery or in solitude.
  • To hide in oblivion; put away finally from one's thoughts: as, to bury an injury.
  • n. A delicate pear of several varieties.
  • n. Soft shale or clay; flucan.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cover from sight
  • v. embed deeply
  • v. dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
  • v. place in the earth and cover with soil
  • v. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
  • v. place in a grave or tomb
  • Verb Form
    buried    buries    burying   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hide    conceal    situate    deposit    fix    posit    enclose    inclose    shut in    close in   
    Cross Reference
    submerge    ignore    forget    absorb    covert    to bury the hatchet   
    Variant
    buried   
    Hyponym
    repress    unlearn    suppress   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    borough    manor    castle    inter    repress    cover    inurn    hide    inhume    overwhelm   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Arie    Azeri    Barrie    Barry    Berri    Berry    Canary    Carey    Carrie    Cary