Bury
['berɪ] or ['bɛri]
Definition
(verb.) place in the earth and cover with soil; 'They buried the stolen goods'.
(verb.) embed deeply; 'She sank her fingers into the soft sand'; 'He buried his head in her lap'.
(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'.
Checked by Balder--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
(n.) A manor house; a castle.
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.
Typist: Pearl
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Cover (with earth, &c.), cover up.[2]. Inter, inhume, entomb, inurn, lay in the grave, consign to the grave.[3]. Hide, conceal, secrete, shroud.
Editor: Wilma
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inter, inhume, conceal, repress, suppress, obliterate, cancel, entomb, compose,hush
ANT:Disinter, exhume, bruit, excavate, expose, resuscitate, publicate, aggravate
Checked by Laurie
Definition
n. a delicate pear of several varieties.—Also Burr′el Burr′el-pear.
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.
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Examples
- Riviere's visit, and his intention had been to bury the incident in his bosom. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But our troops had to bury the dead, and found that more Confederate than Union soldiers had been killed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Twelve shillings a week, even when they are an old man's wages, bury themselves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No, nor nobody never did; but now she's dead, we've got to bury her; and that's the direction; and the sooner it's done, the better. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They have a grand mausoleum in Florence, which they built to bury our Lord and Saviour and the Medici family in. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We almost let the dead bury their dead today while the living drive forward their tasks, achieving as much in a year as the old ages did in twenty. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Bury me at sea, for I will have no meaner grave than the mighty ocean. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Animal and vegetable matter buried in the depth of the earth sometimes undergoes natural distillation, and as a result gas is formed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- So Laurie played and Jo listened, with her nose luxuriously buried in heliotrope and tea roses. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual light. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The glyptodon was a monstrous South American armadillo, and a human skeleton has been found by Roth buried beneath its huge tortoise-like shell. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now, Thquire, I can take my oath, from my knowledge of that dog, that that man wath dead—and buried—afore that dog come back to me. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was the day after Mr. Casaubon had been buried, and Dorothea was not yet able to leave her room. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And so she said to me, did I know the way to the burying ground? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil--I, the prostrate votary--felt beforehand the annihilating craunch. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And I asked her which burying ground. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Burying my head in my arms I turned, broken, and sorrowful, down the trail from the cave. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Then came the hordes of northern barbarians pouring in waves over the southern countries and burying from sight their arts and civilisation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The next he had thrown himself on his knees beside the table, and burying his face in his hands, he had burst into a storm of passionate sobbing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But she said she meant a poor burying ground not very far from here, where there was an archway, and a step, and an iron gate. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He receives these salutations with gravity and buries them along with the rest of his knowledge. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No animal has more liberty than the cat; but it buries the mess it makes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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