Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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 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 Slang To outdo or defeat by a large margin.
- idiom (bury the hatchet) To stop fighting; resolve a quarrel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A borough; a manor
- noun Prov. Eng. 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 (Zoöl.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
borough ; amanor - verb To ritualistically
inter acorpse in agrave ortomb . (seeburial ) - verb To
place in theground . "bury a bone" - verb To
hide orconceal as if by covering with earth - "she buried her face in the pillow", "buried the secret deep inside" - verb figuratively To put an end to; to
abandon . "They buried their argument and shook hands" - verb figuratively To
score a goal
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They were marked inaccurate by the Republican/McCain bury brigade on digg.
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An example of a news story that the lamescream media companies are trying to bury is the fact that Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist is running for Congress.
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All I wanna do in bury Cocteau up to his neck in shit, and let him think happy-happy thoughts forever.
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She argues that Israeli efforts to "bury" the report have been "complicated" from the start by "an inconvenient truth: Goldstone was one of them -- a Jew, and not just any Jew, an exemplary one."
Alan Dershowitz: Goldstone Needs to Recant In Light of the New Evidence Alan Dershowitz 2011
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I regret to this day living in Bedford Place and environs all those years ago, right slap-bang under the 'bury' bit of Bloomsbury, and never really appreciating the literary nature of my surroundings.
Bookhound finds... 2008
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Now that I've gotten into the habit of saying the word "bury" with a Canadian accent, I've found that when I perform it on stage I switch it to the American one.
Just movin' on 消えそうな tragic_elegance 2008
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Ayers cites Studs Terkel's Huffington Post interview with Edward Lifson, in which Terkel described Palin as "Joe McCarthy in drag," to support his point that McCain and Palin saw this campaign as an opportunity to "bury" the mores of the '60s:
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Ayers cites Studs Terkel's Huffington Post interview with Edward Lifson, in which Terkel described Palin as "Joe McCarthy in drag," to support his point that McCain and Palin saw this campaign as an opportunity to "bury" the mores of the '60s:
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I regret to this day living in Bedford Place and environs all those years ago, right slap-bang under the 'bury' bit of Bloomsbury, and never really appreciating the literary nature of my surroundings.
Bookhound finds... 2008
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It's obvious that Newt finds the right of free speech an abomination - recall that if in power he will "bury" public broadcasting.
Gingrich: Six Muslim Scholars Should Have Been "Prosecuted" 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word bury
Along with choir, a leading candidate for the "unpredictable vowel" award.
July 19, 2011
blafferty commented on the word bury
Oo, oo! Is there an unpredictable vowel list?
July 20, 2011