'Bury' definitions:
Definition of 'bury'
(from WordNet)
verb
Cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas"
verb
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" [syn: bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest]
verb
Place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods"
verb
Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" [syn: immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up]
verb
Embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" [syn: bury, sink]
verb
Definition of 'Bury'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
- To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the lord's seat, is called bury, in some parts of England. --Miege. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bury'
From: GCIDE
- 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 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. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. --Matt. viii. 21. [1913 Webster]
- I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Burying beetle (Zool.), 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal; overwhelm; repress. [1913 Webster] Burying ground
Synonyms of 'bury'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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