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bury
[ ber-ee ]
verb (used with object)
- to put in the ground and cover with earth:
The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- to put (a corpse) in the ground or a vault, or into the sea, often with ceremony:
They buried the sailor with full military honors.
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Antonyms: ,
- to plunge in deeply; cause to sink in:
to bury an arrow in a target.
- to cover in order to conceal from sight:
She buried the card in the deck.
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- to immerse (oneself):
He buried himself in his work.
- to put out of one's mind:
to bury an insult.
- to consign to obscurity; cause to appear insignificant by assigning to an unimportant location, position, etc.:
Her name was buried in small print at the end of the book.
noun
- Nautical. housing 1( def 8a, 8b ).
bury
1/ 藞产蓻谤瑟 /
verb
- to place (a corpse) in a grave, usually with funeral rites; inter
- to place in the earth and cover with soil
- to lose through death
- to cover from sight; hide
- to embed; sink
to bury a nail in plaster
- to occupy (oneself) with deep concentration; engross
to be buried in a book
- to dismiss from the mind; abandon
to bury old hatreds
- bury the hatchetto cease hostilities and become reconciled
- bury one's head in the sandto refuse to face a problem
Bury
2/ 藞产蓻谤瑟 /
noun
- a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester: an early textile centre. Pop: 60聽178 (2001)
- a unitary authority in NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 181聽900 (2003 est). Area: 99 sq km (38 sq miles)
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 谤别路产耻谤路测 verb (used with object) reburied reburying
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of bury1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of bury1
Idioms and Phrases
- bury one's head in the sand, to avoid reality; ignore the facts of a situation:
You cannot continue to bury your head in the sand鈥攜ou must learn to face facts.
- bury the hatchet, to become reconciled or reunited.
Example Sentences
Pope Francis has been buried in Rome after a funeral ceremony and procession attended by hundreds of thousands of people and many heads of state.
Last year, however, Pope Francis requested that he be buried in a simpler wooden coffin with a zinc interior.
The skeleton, a male aged between 26 and 35, had been buried in a grave with two others and overlaid with horse bones.
For her part, Wednesday describes returning to school as "like returning to the scene of the crime", noting that she "already knows where the bodies are buried".
鈥淭hey were trying to bury the guy,鈥 Bonner said, 鈥渁nd it really came back to bite them.鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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