bury
[verb]
Synonyms:
- inter, consign to the grave, entomb, inhume, lay to rest
- embed, engulf, submerge
- hide, conceal, cover, enshroud, secrete, stow away

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Contrasted words: dig (up), disentomb, disinter, exhume, untomb, burn, cremate
Related Idioms: consign to the grave, lay to rest, put six feet under
Related Words: inurn, coffin

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bur‧y W3 /ˈberi/ verb (past tense and past participle buried, present participle burying, third person singular buries) [transitive]
[Word Family: verb: bury; noun: burial; adjective: buried]
[Language: Old English; Origin: byrgan]

1. DEAD PERSON to put someone who has died in a grave
bury somebody in/at etc something
He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s.

2. OBJECT to put something under the ground, often in order to hide it:
Electric cables are buried beneath the streets.

3. FALL ON SOMETHING [usually passive] to fall on top of someone or something, usually harming or destroying them
be buried under/beneath etc something
The skiers were buried under the snow.
Fifty-seven miners were buried alive.

4. HIDDEN [usually passive] to cover something so that it cannot be found:
His glasses were buried under a pile of papers.

5. FEELING/MEMORY to ignore a feeling or memory and pretend that it does not exist:
a deeply buried memory

6. bury your face/head etc (in something) to press your face etc into something soft:
Noel buried his face in the pillow.

7. bury your face/head in your hands to cover your face with your hands because you are very upset

8. bury your head in the sand to ignore an unpleasant situation and hope it will stop if you do not think about it

9. bury the hatchet/bury your differences to agree to stop arguing about something and become friends

10. IN A SURFACE to push something, especially something sharp, into something else with a lot of force
bury something in something
The dog buried its teeth in my leg.
The bullet buried itself in the wall.

11. bury yourself in your work/studies etc to give all your attention to something:
After the divorce, she buried herself in her work.

12. INFORMATION to put information in a document in a place where it is unlikely to be noticed, or to not make it available to people:
The story was buried at the back of the paper.

13. LOVED ONE literary to have someone you love die:
She had buried her husband, two sons, and a daughter.
⇒ be dead and buried at dead¹(14)

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bury
verb
I. dead person
PHRASES be dead and buried Those people are now all dead and buried. (figurative) Their ambitions were finally dead and buried.
bury sb alive

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bury
II. hide in the ground
ADV. deep | underground The waste is buried deep underground.

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III. cover
ADV. completely a fallen tree trunk almost completely buried in the long grass
PHRASES be buried alive The miners were buried alive when the tunnel collapsed.
be/get buried beneath/under sth The building was now buried under three metres of soil. Your letter got buried under a pile of papers.

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bury
IV. put sth deeply into sth
ADV. deep/deeply He slumped forward, the knife buried deep in his chest. (figurative) her deeply buried pain
PHRASES lie/remain buried (often figurative) The king is dead and lies buried at Jedburgh Abbey. What secrets lie buried in the past?

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