Definition of bury Bury
/bɛˈɹi/ - [beree] - bur•y
We found 22 definitions of bury from 7 different sources.
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What does bury mean?
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| bury - 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" | ||
| entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest | ||
| lay, repose, put down put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed" | ||
| bury - place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods" | ||
| situate, deposit, posit, fix put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot" | ||
| bury - embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" | ||
| sink | ||
| imbed, embed, engraft, implant, plant attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division" | ||
| countersink, set set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly; "set clocks or instruments" | ||
| bury - cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas" | ||
| conceal, hide hold back; keep from being perceived by others; "She conceals her anger well" | ||
| bury - dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories" | ||
| forget | ||
| think of, remember look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent" | ||
| unlearn discard something previously learnt, like an old habit | ||
| repress, suppress block the action of | ||
| bury - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" | ||
| immerse, swallow, swallow up, eat up | ||
| shut in, close in, inclose, enclose advance or converge on; "The police were closing in on him" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- bury (Noun)
A borough; a manor. - bury (Verb)
To ritualistically inter a corpse in a grave or tomb. - bury (Verb)
To place in the ground. "bury a bone". - bury (Verb)
To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth - "she buried her face in the pillow", "buried the secret deep inside". - bury (Verb)
To put an end to; to abandon. "They buried their argument and shook hands". - bury (Verb)
To score a goal.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- bury (n.)
A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's - bury (n.)
A manor house; a castle. - bury (v. t.)
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. - bury (v. t.)
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. - bury (v. t.)
To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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bury
To put in the ground and cover with earth.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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bury
ber′i, v.t. to hide in the ground: to cover: to place in the grave, as a dead body: to hide or blot out of remembrance:—pr.p. bur′ying; pa.p. bur′ied.—ns. Bur′ying-ground, Bur′ying-place, ground set apart for burying the dead: a graveyard.—Bury the hatchet, to cease strife. [A.S. byrgan, to bury; Ger. bergen, to hide.] -
bury
ber′i, n. a delicate pear of several varieties.—Also Burr′el, Burr′el-pear. [Cf. the Fr. beurré, as in 'Beurré d'Angoulême.']
Wikipedia 
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Bury is a town in the north of the metroploitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England.
Bury is between Rochdale and Salford, the town is a dormitory town in a northern suburb of Manchester. It is just west of the M66 motorway, and is the largest settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury and has a population of 60,718.
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🔤- bury, verb, present, 1st person singular of bury (infinitive).
- bury, verb (infinitive).
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