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Bury Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Bury?
[v] dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "i tried to bury these unpleasant memories"
[v] place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods" [v] embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" [v] enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" [v] cover from sight [v] place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaos were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bury: eat up | engross | entomb | forget | immerse | inhume | inter | lay to rest | sink | swallow | swallow up Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | whelm See Also | conceal | countersink | cover | deposit | embed | enclose | engraft | fix | hide | imbed | implant | inclose | lay | plant | posit | put down | repose | repress | set | shut in | situate | suppress | unlearn Bury In Webster's Dictionary \Bur"y\ (b[e^]r"r[y^]), n. [See 1st {Borough}.]
1. A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's;
Note: used as a termination of names of places; as,
Canterbury, Shrewsbury.
2. A manor house; a castle. [Prov. Eng.]
To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the
lord's seat, is called bury, in some parts of
England. --Miege.
\Bur"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Buried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Burying}.] [OE. burien, birien, berien, AS. byrgan; akin to beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw. berga, Dan. bierge, Goth. ba['i]rgan. [root]95. Cf. {Burrow}.] 1. 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. And all their confidence Under the weight of mountains buried deep. --Milton. 2. 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. Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. --Matt. viii. 21. I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. --Shak. 3. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife. Give me a bowl of wine In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. --Shak. {Burying beetle} (Zo["o]l.), the general name of many species of beetles, of the tribe {Necrophaga}; the sexton beetle; -- so called from their habit of burying small dead animals by digging away the earth beneath them. The larv[ae] feed upon decaying flesh, and are useful scavengers. {To bury the hatchet}, to lay aside the instruments of war, and make peace; -- a phrase used in allusion to the custom observed by the North American Indians, of burying a tomahawk when they conclude a peace. Syn: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal; overwhelm; repress. |
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