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Bury
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb Bury has 6 senses
- bury(v = verb.perception) Array - cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas" is one way to conceal, hide
- bury(v = verb.social) entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest - place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" is one way to lay, put down, repose
- bury(v = verb.contact) Array - place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods" is one way to deposit, fix, posit, situate
- bury(v = verb.contact) eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" is one way to close in, enclose, inclose, shut in
- bury(v = verb.contact) sink - embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" is one way to embed, engraft, imbed, implant, plant
- bury(v = verb.cognition) forget - dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories" Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
Derived form noun burial1
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot Bury Sue
Derived form noun burial2
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Somebody ----s something
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Something ----s something
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
CIDE DICTIONARY
Bury, n. [See 1st Borough.].
- A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's"used as a termination of names of places;
as, Canter ." [1913 Webster]bury , Shrewsbury - A manor house; a castle. [1913 Webster]"To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the lord's seat, is called bury, in some parts of England." [1913 Webster]
Bury, v. t. [OE. burien, birien, berien, AS. byrgan; akin to beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw. berga, Dan. bierge, Goth. baírgan. Burrow.].
- To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands. [1913 Webster]"And all their confidence
Under the weight of mountains buried deep." [1913 Webster] - 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. [1913 Webster]"Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father." [1913 Webster]"I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave." [1913 Webster]
- To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife. [1913 Webster]"Give me a bowl of wine
In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal; overwhelm; repress.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Bury, v.tr. (-ies, -ied)
1 place (a dead body) in the earth, in a tomb, or in the sea.
2 lose by death (has buried three husbands).
3 a put under ground (bury alive). b hide (treasure, a bone, etc.) in the earth. c cover up; submerge.
4 a put out of sight (buried his face in his hands). b consign to obscurity (the idea was buried after brief discussion). c put away; forget.
5 involve deeply (buried himself in his work; was buried in a book).
1 place (a dead body) in the earth, in a tomb, or in the sea.
2 lose by death (has buried three husbands).
3 a put under ground (bury alive). b hide (treasure, a bone, etc.) in the earth. c cover up; submerge.
4 a put out of sight (buried his face in his hands). b consign to obscurity (the idea was buried after brief discussion). c put away; forget.
5 involve deeply (buried himself in his work; was buried in a book).
Idiom
bury the hatchet cease to quarrel. burying-beetle a sexton beetle. burying-ground (or -place) a cemetery.
Etymology
OE byrgan f. WG: cf. BURIAL
THESAURUS
Bury
abandon, baptize, bosom, bottle up, cache, coffin, conceal, conduct a funeral, consign to oblivion, cover up, deluge, deposit, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, embosom, encoffin, engulf, ensepulcher, enshrine, entomb, eradicate, extirpate, file and forget, forget, hearse, hide, hide away, immerge, immerse, inearth, inhume, inter, inundate, inurn, keep hidden, keep secret, lay to rest, lock up, merge, obscure, overcome, overwhelm, plant, plunge, plunge in water, put away, seal up, secrete, sepulture, sink, souse, stash, store away, stow away, submerge, submerse, tomb, whelmROGET THESAURUS
Bury
Circumscription
VB circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose, surround, compass about, imprison, hedge in, wall in, rail in, fence round, fence in, hedge round, picket, corral, enfold, bury, encase, incase, pack up, enshrine, inclasp, wrap up, embay, embosom, containment (inclusion).Insertion
VB insert, introduce, intromit, put into, run into, import, inject, interject, infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue, graft, ingraft, bud, plant, implant, dovetail, obtrude, thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in, impact, empierce, imbed, immerse, immerge, merge, bathe, soak, dip, plunge, bury, insert itself, lodge itself, plunge in medias res.Interment
VB inter, bury, lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb, inhume, lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify, toll the knell, put to bed with a shovel, inurn, exhume, disinter, unearth.Concealment
VB conceal, hide, secrete, put out of sight, lock up, seal up, bottle up, encrypt, encode, cipher, cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud, cover up one's tracks, screen from sight, screen from observation, drawing the veil, draw the curtain, close the curtain, curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over, be cloud, be mask, mask, disguise, ensconce, muffle, smother, befog, whisper, keep from, keep back, keep to oneself, keep snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark, bury, sink, suppress, keep from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight, keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background, stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve, fence with a question, ignore, keep a secret, keep one's own counsel, hold one's tongue, make no sign, not let it go further, not breathe a word, not breathe a syllable about, not let the right hand know what the left is doing, hide one's light under a bushel, bury one's talent in a napkin, keep in the dark, leave in the dark, keep in the ignorance, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, hoodwink, mystify, puzzle, bamboozle, be concealed, suffer an eclipse, retire from sight, couch, hide oneself, lie hid, lie in perdu, lie in close, lie in ambush (ambush), seclude oneself, lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl, steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along, play at bopeep, play at hide and seek, hide in holes and corners, still hunt.
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