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Bury   /bˈɛri/   Listen
verb
Bury  v. t.  (past & past part. buried; pres. part. burying)  
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."
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." "I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave."
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."
Burying beetle (Zool.), 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 larvae 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.
Synonyms: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal; overwhelm; repress.


noun
Bury  n.  
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."





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"Bury" Quotes from Famous Books



... fun. She found a little dead mouse in a field; and at first she was sorry for the mouse, and thought she would bury it and plant a daisy on its grave; but then an idea struck her. She hunted about till she found a piece of long, strong grass, and then she took the little mouse, tied the piece of grass round its tail, and ran away with it to the big tree where the Ancient Owl lived. There was a little ...
— The Grey Brethren and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse • Michael Fairless
... Eleanor as Julia ran off, "that Mr. Rhys was going to leave Wiglands and bury himself in some ...
— The Old Helmet, Volume I • Susan Warner
... whether we do not all see the ridicule of the Mogul's subjects, who take from us nothing but our silver, and bury it under ground, in order to make sure thereof against ...
— The Querist • George Berkeley
... his root. I knew there was such a hollow, hidden partly by ivy and creepers growing thick round; and there I meditated hiding my treasure. But I was not only going to hide a treasure—I meant also to bury a grief. That grief over which I had lately been weeping, as I wrapped it in its ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
... it is necessary, in view of the above, to get rid as soon as possible of the Marina and Arabia incidents without further controversy and not to allow any fresh controversies to arise. I think that, with the help of House, I can bury these two incidents without attracting much attention, as this is the wish of Wilson himself. As House said, the President takes a tragic view of these incidents, because, after the Sussex Note, he could not ...
— My Three Years in America • Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff


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