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Bury

verb

(past & past part. buried; pres. part. burying)

Cover from sight.

Place in a grave or tomb. Synonyms: entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest. "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids" , "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"

Place in the earth and cover with soil.

Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing. Synonyms: eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up.

Embed deeply. Synonym: sink. "He buried his head in her lap"

Dismiss from the mind; stop remembering. Synonym: forget. Antonym: remember.

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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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