Bury Definition

bĕrē

buried, buries, burying

verb

buried, buries, burying

To put (a dead body) into the earth, a tomb, or the sea, usually in a ceremonial manner; inter.

Webster's New World

To dispose of (a corpse) ritualistically by means other than interment or cremation.

American Heritage

To hide (something) in the ground.

Webster's New World

To cover up so as to conceal.

She buried her face in the pillow.

Webster's New World

To put away, as from one's life, mind, etc.

To bury a feud.

Webster's New World

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pronoun

A metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.

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noun

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suffix

A placename suffix indicating a fortified place.

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idiom

bury the hatchet

American Heritage

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Bury

Middle English burien, berien, from Old English byrġan, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną (cf. Old Norse byrgja ‘to close’), from *berganą (“to protect, shelter”) (cf. Old English beorgan, West Frisian bergje ‘to keep’, German bergen ‘to save/rescue something’), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerĝʰ, *bʰr̥ĝʰ (cf. Albanian mburojë (“shield”), Lithuanian (Eastern) bir̃ginti ‘to save, spare’, Russian беречь (bereč') ‘to spare’, Ossetian æмбæрзын (æmbærzyn, “to cover”).

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Middle English burien from Old English byrgan bhergh-¹ in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Old English burh (“fortified place”)

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See borough.

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