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English Dictionary: burying by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
burying
n
  1. concealing something under the ground [syn: burying, burial]
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.
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