buried, inhumed, interred
(adjective) placed in a grave; “the hastily buried corpses”
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
buried (comparative more buried, superlative most buried)
Placed in a grave at a burial.
Concealed, hidden.
buried
simple past tense and past participle of bury
• burdei, rubied
Source: Wiktionary
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
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
