bury

bury
verb
1 dead person
PHRASES
▪ be dead and buried
▪

Those people are now all dead and buried.

▪

Their ambitions were finally dead and buried. (figurative)

▪ bury sb alive, lie buried, remain buried (often figurative)
▪

The king lies buried at Jedburgh Abbey.

▪

What secrets lie buried in the past?

2 hide in the ground
ADVERB
▪ deep
▪ underground
▪

The waste is buried deep underground.

3 cover
ADVERB
▪ completely
▪

a fallen tree trunk almost completely buried in the long grass

▪ partially
PHRASES
▪ be buried alive
▪

The miners were buried alive when the tunnel collapsed.

▪ buried beneath sth, buried under sth
▪

The building was now buried under ten feet of soil.

▪

Your letter got buried under a pile of papers.

▪ be buried up to your chin in sth, be buried up to your neck in sth, etc.
▪

He was buried up to his neck in sand.

4 put sth deeply into sth
ADVERB
▪ deep, deeply
▪

He slumped forward, the knife buried deep in his chest.

▪

her deeply buried pain (figurative)

Bury is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ash, ↑body, ↑egg, ↑face, ↑father, ↑feeling, ↑head, ↑memory, ↑mine, ↑myth, ↑news, ↑remains, ↑treasure, ↑victim, ↑waste

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  • Bury — 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bury — [v1] lay to rest after death consign to grave, cover up, deposit, embalm, ensepulcher, enshrine, entomb, hold last rites for*, hold services for, inearth, inhume, inter, inurn, lay out, mummify, plant*, put away*, put six feet under*, sepulcher,… …   New thesaurus

  • bury — ► VERB (buries, buried) 1) put or hide underground. 2) place (a dead body) in the earth or a tomb. 3) cause to disappear or become unnoticeable. 4) (bury oneself) involve oneself deeply in something. ● …   English terms dictionary

  • Bury — 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A manor house; a castle. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • bury — O.E. byrgan to raise a mound, hide, bury, inter, akin to beorgan to shelter, from P.Gmc. *burzjanan protection, shelter (Cf. O.N. bjarga, Swed. berga, Ger. bergen, Goth. bairgan to save, preserve ), from PIE root *bhergh protect, preserve (Cf.… …   Etymology dictionary

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  • bury — [ber′ē] vt. buried, burying [ME birien < OE byrgan, akin to beorgan, to shelter < IE base * bhergh , protect, preserve > Ger bergen, protect, Pol bróg, barn] 1. to put (a dead body) into the earth, a tomb, or the sea, usually in a… …   English World dictionary

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