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BURIED
buried, inhumed, interred
(adjective) placed in a grave; “the hastily buried corpses”
BURY
forget, bury
(verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; “I tried to bury these unpleasant memories”
bury
(verb) place in the earth and cover with soil; “They buried the stolen goods”
bury, sink
(verb) embed deeply; “She sank her fingers into the soft sand”; “He buried his head in her lap”
immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up
(verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; “The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter”
bury
(verb) cover from sight; “Afghani women buried under their burkas”
bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest
(verb) place in a grave or tomb; “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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
buried (comparative more buried, superlative most buried)
Placed in a grave at a burial.
Concealed, hidden.
Verb
buried
simple past tense and past participle of bury
Anagrams
• burdei, rubied
Source: Wiktionary
BURY
Bur"y, n. Etym: [See 1st Borough.]
1. A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's; --
Note: 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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buried; p. pr. & vb. n. Burying.] Etym: [OE. burien, birien, berien, AS. byrgan; akin to beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw. berga, Dan. bierge, Goth. baĂrgan. sq. root95. 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 (Zoöl.), 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 larvæ 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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