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English Dictionary: bury	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for bury
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bury v cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas" 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" Synonym(s): bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods" enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" Synonym(s): immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" Synonym(s): bury, sink dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories" Synonym(s): forget, bury Antonym(s): remember, think of
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[a1]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[94]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[91] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bury \Bur"y\ (b[ecr]r"r[ycr]), 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.