Bury

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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter.
  • transitive verb. To dispose of (a corpse) ritualistically by means other than interment or cremation.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To place in the ground; cover with earth.
  • transitive verb. To place so as to conceal; hide or obscure.
  • transitive verb. To occupy (oneself) with deep concentration; absorb.
  • transitive verb. To put an end to; abandon.
  • transitive verb. To outdo or defeat by a large margin.
  • idiom. (bury the hatchet) To stop fighting; resolve a quarrel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A delicate pear of several varieties.
  • To deposit and inclose in a grave or tomb, as a dead body; consign to any final resting-place after or as after death; entomb.
  • To cover or conceal from sight; sink or lodge in or under anything: as, to bury treasures in the earth or under rubbish; he buried the dagger in his enemy's heart.
  • Hence To cover up; keep secret; hide; conceal.
  • To withdraw or conceal in retirement: as, lo bury one's self in a monastery or in solitude.
  • To hide in oblivion; put away finally from one's thoughts: as, to bury an injury.
  • noun. Soft shale or clay; flucan.
  • noun. A burrow.
  • noun. A camp or heap of turnips or the like, stored up.
  • noun. A castle, manor-house, or habitation; a borough.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A borough; a manor
  • noun. A manor house; a castle.
  • transitive verb. To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon.
  • transitive verb. 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 larvæ feed upon decaying flesh, and are useful scavengers.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A borough; a manor
  • verb. To ritualistically inter a corpse in a grave or tomb. (see burial)
  • verb. To place in the ground. "bury a bone"
  • verb. To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth - "she buried her face in the pillow", "buried the secret deep inside"
  • verb. To put an end to; to abandon. "They buried their argument and shook hands"
  • verb. To score a goal
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cover from sight
  • verb. embed deeply
  • verb. dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
  • verb. place in the earth and cover with soil
  • verb. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
  • verb. place in a grave or tomb
  • Word Usage
    "They were marked inaccurate by the Republican/McCain bury brigade on digg."
    cross-reference
    absorb  covert  forget  ignore  submerge  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    close in  conceal  deposit  enclose  fix  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Arie  Azeri  Barrie  Barry  Berri  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abandon  abandon  baptize  borough  bosom  
    variant
    buried  
    verb-form
    buried  buries  burying