bury Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cover from sight
    • Afghani women buried under their burkas
  2. verb place in a grave or tomb
    lay to rest; inhume; inter; entomb.
    • 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
  3. verb place in the earth and cover with soil
    • They buried the stolen goods
  4. verb enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
    eat up; swallow; immerse; swallow up.
    • The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
  5. verb embed deeply
    sink.
    • She sank her fingers into the soft sand
    • He buried his head in her lap
  6. verb dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
    forget.
    • I tried to bury these unpleasant memories

WordNet

Bur"y noun
Etymology
See 1st Borough.
Definitions
  1. A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's; -- 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.
Bur"y transitive verb
Etymology
OE. burien, birien, berien, AS. byrgan; akin to beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw. berga, Dan. bierge, Goth. baírgan. Cf. Burrow.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Buried present participle & verbal noun Burying
Definitions
  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.
    Syn. -- To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal; overwhelm; repress.

Webster 1913