Meaning of bury in English

bury

verb [ T ]

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/ˈber.i/

bury verb [T] (COVER WITH EARTH, ETC.)

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to put a dead body into the ground:

His father is buried in the cemetery on the hill.

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burial

to put something into a hole in the ground and cover it:

buried treasure They were on the hunt for buried treasure.

The dog trotted off to bury its bone.

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to cover something or someone completely with a large quantity of something:

be buried alive If an avalanche strikes, skiers can be buried alive by snow.

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to lie on the surface of someone or something

coverSnow covered the ground.
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blanketThe fields were blanketed with early-morning mist.
enshroudThe mountaintops were enshrouded in a thick veil of cloud.
buryThe shed was completely buried by rubble.
be carpeted with somethingThe aisle was carpeted with rose petals.

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If someone says they buried someone, usually a close relation, they mean that the person died:

She buried both her parents last year.

No-one should have to bury their child.

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A ceasefire has been called to allow the survivors to bury their dead.
He made a short speech at the graveside, then the body was finally buried.
Robin Hood asked to be buried where his arrow landed.
X marks the spot where the treasure is buried.
In AD 79 the city of Pompei was buried under a layer of ash seven metres deep.

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Burying, cremating and preserving bodies

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Hiding and disguising

Covering and adding layers

Death and dying

bury verb [T] (HIDE)

to put something in a place where it is difficult or impossible to find or see:

be buried away I found the article buried away in the business section of the newspaper.

She buried her face in her hands and began to sob.

to try to prevent people from finding out about something that has happened:

bury the truth This was an attempt to bury the truth about the senator's death.

bury bad news One of the oldest tricks for burying bad news is to release it on the last day of the parliamentary session.

to try to forget an unpleasant experience or try not to feel an unpleasant emotion:

He'd had to bury his pain over the years.

Many of us have been hurt in relationships, and a frequent form of defence is to bury your feelings.

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I found some old letters buried in a drawer.
This is a story of deceit and complicity by government and industry to bury the truth about the dangers of uranium mining.
Everyone knows that Friday is when you release news you want to bury, because Friday news gets reported in the little-read Saturday papers.
Many soldiers bury the feelings and memories of war when they get home.
Could she really entirely bury her anger about the media circus she had to endure?
Her constructive criticism and wise counselling helped me uncover buried feelings and emotions which I had long denied.

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Hiding and disguising

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Forgetting and forgetfulness

bury verb [T] (SCORE)

sports mainly UK informal specialized

to send a ball into the net of a goal with a lot of force:

He made a zig-zagging run before burying the ball with his left foot.

Thornton buried the shot into the left-hand side of the net.

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She buries the ball just inside the right post.
This is the sort of chance he usually buries, but he missed it.

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General terms used in ball sports

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Idiom

bury the hatchet

Phrasal verb

bury yourself in something

(Definition of bury from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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bury

verb [ T ]

/ˈber·i/

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to put a dead body into the ground:

My father is buried in Kentucky.

To bury something is also to put it into the ground:

Squirrels bury nuts and dig them up later to eat them.

To bury something is also to hide it or to make it difficult to find:

She buried her face in her hands.

The article was buried in the middle of the newspaper.

Idiom

bury the hatchet

(Definition of bury from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of bury

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The sweat bath, the angled wall, and the rear piers were removed or buried.

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But the frequent link between visiting a church and praying for the souls of people identified as buried there is suggestive.

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Seed distributions in the bucket experiment differed among species, with small seeds being buried deeper than large seeds.

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He died rather suddenly and was buried in the shrine complex.

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Seeds are conditionally dormant at maturity, and undergo annual non-dormancy/conditional dormancy cycles when buried outdoors.

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This is overlain by a thin lenticular ignimbrite flow-unit draped by a fine ash layer, and buried by thick massive lapilli-tuff.

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So when the eighth child died, those who buried it inflicted some injuries under the sole of the feet, probably with thorns.

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There is no evidence of dismemberment or drying outside the tombs, and it is believed that individuals were buried shortly after death.

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It seems logical to assume that these offerings indicate places where human remains were buried but the acidity of the soil destroyed the bones.

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Using the hex-path algorithm a robotic system was able to locate a source of ethanol vapour buried in sand.

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What makes this episode resonate as a vernacular form of archaeological thinking buried deep in the literary imagination of the mid-19th century?

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Members of founding clans were usually buried in the villages they created, thus sustaining later claims over land.

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If the mortuary bundles were not buried, then archaeologists and looters would encounter the surviving masks in surface debris.

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Since most of the leaves of all species were at the apex of the stem, this did not involve burying any leaves.

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Personal identities seem to have been linked to the number of beads with which one was buried, rather than to the distinctiveness of the beads.

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Translations of bury

in Chinese (Traditional)

埋, 埋葬，安葬, 埋，掩埋…

in Chinese (Simplified)

埋, 埋葬，安葬, 埋，掩埋…

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enterrar, esconder, reprimir…

in Portuguese

enterrar, sepultar, esconder…

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मृतदेह जमिनीत पुरणे, जमिनीच्या छिद्रात काहीतरी घालणे आणि ते झाकणे, एखादी गोष्ट किंवा एखाद्याला मोठ्या प्रमाणात काहीतरी झाकण्यासाठी…

（遺体）を埋葬する, 埋める, （土の中・何かの下に）～を隠す…

gömmek, defnetmek, bir şeyi toprağa gömmek…

enterrer, inhumer, enfouir…

enterrar…

begraven, verbergen…

இறந்த உடலை தரையில் வைக்க / புதைக்க, தரையில் ஒரு துளைக்குள் எதையாவது வைத்து அதை மறைக்க, எதையாவது அல்லது யாரையாவது ஒரு பெரிய அளவிலான ஒன்றின் மூலம் முழுமையாக மூடுவதற்கு…

(मृतक को) दफनाना, गाड़ना या दबाना, दबाना या दब जाना…

દફનાવવું, દાટવું, દટાઈ જવું…

begrave, gemme sig under…

begrava, gräva ner…

tanam, timbus…

begraben, verbergen…