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1. (v.t.) bury
to put in the ground and cover with earth.
2. bury
to put (a corpse) in the ground or a vault, or into the sea, often with ceremony.
3. bury
to plunge in deeply; cause to sink in.
4. bury
to conceal from sight:
to bury a card in the deck.
5. bury
to immerse (oneself):
He buried himself in his work.
6. bury
to cause to appear insignificant:
buried in small print.
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| Definition of 'bury' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) bury
cover from sight
"Afghani women buried under their burkas"
2. (verb) bury, 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"
3. (verb) bury
place in the earth and cover with soil
"They buried the stolen goods"
4. (verb) immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up
enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
"The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
5. (verb) bury, sink
embed deeply
"She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap"
6. (verb) forget, bury
dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
"I tried to bury these unpleasant memories"
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1. (verb) bury
to put a dead body in the ground
My grandmother was buried in this cemetery.
2. bury
to hide in the ground
to bury a treasure
3. bury
to cause sth to be hidden by sth else
Snow had buried the fields in a layer of white.; She buried her face in her hands.
4. bury
to prevent yourself from thinking or feeling sth
He tried to bury his bitterness.
5. bury
bury the hatchet
to agree to become friends after arguing
The feuding families buried the hatchet.
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| Definition of 'bury' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) bury
a borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
2. (noun) bury
a manor house; a castle
3. (verb) bury
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
4. (verb) bury
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
5. (verb) bury
to hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. bury
a manufacturing town in Lancashire, 10 m. NW. of Manchester; originally but a small place engaged in woollen manufacture, but cotton is now the staple manufacture in addition to paper-works, dye-works, &c.
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Sense: to place (a dead body) in a grave, the sea etc.
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 Afrikaans: begrawe |
 Arabic: يَدْفِنُ |
 Bulgarian: погребвам |
 Brazilian: enterrar |
 Czech: pohřbít |
 German: begraben |
 Danish: begrave |
 Greek: θάβω |
 Spanish: enterrar |
 Estonian: matma |
 Farsi: به خاک سپردن؛ دفن کردن |
 Finnish: haudata |
 French: enterrer |
 Hebrew: לִקבוֹר |
 Hindi: दफनाना |
 Croatian: pokopati |
 Hungarian: (el)temet |
 Indonesian: mengubur |
 Icelandic: grafa |
 Italian: seppellire |
 Japanese: 埋葬する |
 Korean: 파묻다 |
 Lithuanian: (pa)laidoti |
 Latvian: apglabāt; apbedīt |
 Malay: tanam |
 Dutch: begraven |
 Norwegian: begrave, gravlegge |
 Polish: pochować |
 Persian: به خاک سپردن؛ دفن کردن |
 Pashto: خښول، خاوروته سپارل |
 Portuguese: enterrar |
 Romanian: aîngropa |
 Russian: хоронить |
 Slovak: pochovať |
 Slovenian: pokopati |
 Serbian: sahraniti |
 Swedish: begrava |
 Thai: ฝังศพ |
 Turkish: gömmek, defnetmek |
 Taiwanese: 掩埋(屍體) |
 Ukrainian: ховати |
 Urdu: دفن کرنا |
 Vietnamese: chôn cất |
 Chinese: 掩埋（尸体） |
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