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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BURY, n. ber'ry. This word is a different orthography of burg, burh, borough. It signifies a house, habitation or castle, and is retained in many names of places, as in Shrewsbury, Danbury, Aldermanbury. The word is used by Grew, for burrow.
BURY, v.t. ber'ry.
1. To deposit a deceased person in the grave; to inter a corpse; to entomb.
2. To cover with earth, as seed sown.
3. To hide; to conceal; to overwhelm; to cover with any thing; as, to bury any one in the ruins of a city.
4. To withdraw or conceal in retirement; as, to bury one's self in a monastery or in solitude.
5. To commit to the water; to deposit in the ocean; as dead bodies buried in the deep.
6. To place one thing within another.
Thy name so buried in her.
7. To forget and forgive; to hide in oblivion; as, to bury an injury.
To bury the hatchet, in the striking metaphorical language of American Indians, is to lay aside the instruments of war, forget injuries, and make peace.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas"
2: 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]
3: place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods"
4: 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]
5: embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" [syn: bury, sink]
6: dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories" [syn: forget, bury] [ant: remember, think of]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (buried; burying) Etymology: Middle English burien, from Old English byrgan; akin to Old High German bergan to shelter, Russian berech' to spare Date: before 12th century 1. to dispose of by depositing in or as if in the earth; especially to inter with funeral ceremonies 2. a. to conceal by or as if by covering with earth b. to cover from view <buried her face in her hands> 3. a. to have done with <burying their differences> b. to conceal in obscurity <buried the retraction among the classified ads> c. submerge, engross — usually used with in <buried himself in his books> 4. to put (a playing card) out of play by placing it in or under the dealer's pack 5. to succeed emphatically or impressively in making (a shot) <bury a jumper> <bury a putt> 6. to defeat overwhelmingly Synonyms: see hide

Merriam Webster's

geographical name town NW England in Greater Manchester population 172,200

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 place (a dead body) in the earth, in a tomb, or in the sea. 2 lose by death (has buried three husbands). 3 a put under ground (bury alive). b hide (treasure, a bone, etc.) in the earth. c cover up; submerge. 4 a put out of sight (buried his face in his hands). b consign to obscurity (the idea was buried after brief discussion). c put away; forget. 5 involve deeply (buried himself in his work; was buried in a book). Phrases and idioms: bury the hatchet cease to quarrel. burying-beetle a sexton beetle. burying-ground (or -place) a cemetery. Etymology: OE byrgan f. WG: cf. BURIAL

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. A manor house; a castle. [Prov. Eng.] To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the lord's seat, is called bury, in some parts of England. --Miege.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. And all their confidence Under the weight of mountains buried deep. --Milton. 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. Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. --Matt. viii. 21. I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. --Shak. 3. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife. Give me a bowl of wine In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. --Shak. Burying beetle (Zo["o]l.), 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. Syn: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal; overwhelm; repress.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(buries, burying, buried) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth. They make the charcoal by burying wood in the ground and then slowly burning it. ...squirrels who bury nuts and seeds. ...buried treasure. VERB: V n prep/adv, V n, V-ed 2. To bury a dead person means to put their body into a grave and cover it with earth. ...soldiers who helped to bury the dead in large communal graves... I was horrified that people would think I was dead and bury me alive... More than 9,000 men lie buried here. VERB: V n, V n adj, V-ed 3. If someone says they have buried one of their relatives, they mean that one of their relatives has died. He had buried his wife some two years before he retired. VERB: V n 4. If you bury something under a large quantity of things, you put it there, often in order to hide it. I was looking for my handbag, which was buried under a pile of old newspapers. VERB: V n prep/adv 5. If something buries a place or person, it falls on top of them so that it completely covers them and often harms them in some way. Latest reports say that mud slides buried entire villages... He was buried under the debris for several hours. VERB: V n, V-ed 6. If you bury your head or face in something, you press your head or face against it, often because you are unhappy. She buried her face in the pillows... = hide VERB: V n prep/adv 7. If something buries itself somewhere, or if you bury it there, it is pushed very deeply in there. The missile buried itself deep in the grassy hillside... He stood on the sidewalk with his hands buried in the pockets of his dark overcoat. VERB: V pron-refl prep/adv, V-ed, also V n prep/adv 8. to bury the hatchet: see hatchet

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Cover (with earth, etc.), cover up. 2. Inter, inhume, entomb, inurn, inearth, lay in the grave, consign to the grave. 3. Hide, conceal, secrete, shroud. 4. Immure, confine, plunge into retirement. 5. Cover with oblivion, utterly forget, hide beyond remembrance, lay aside forever, cancel, compose, hush.

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