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Bury   /bˈɛri/   Listen
verb
Bury  v. t.  (past & past part. buried; pres. part. burying)  
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."
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." "I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave."
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."
Burying beetle (Zool.), 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 larvae 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.
Synonyms: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal; overwhelm; repress.


noun
Bury  n.  
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."





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"Bury" Quotes from Famous Books



... very deeply moved by the tidings. "He wanted to save us, and therefore must die! The burden was too heavy, the pillar has broken under the weight; the temple will plunge down and bury us beneath its ruins, if we do not hasten to save ourselves! Mirabeau's bequest was his counsel to speedy and secret flight! We must follow his advice, we must remove from Paris. May the spirit of Mirabeau enlighten the heart of the king, that he may be willing to do what is necessary,—that ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... would say, to bury herself here with Monsieur Gaston de Nueil, you would say," replied the daughter of the Colonnas. "She is only a Frenchwoman; I am an Italian, my ...
— Albert Savarus • Honore de Balzac
... the name of that old fellow," said Mr. Maxwell, abruptly, "who had a beautiful swan that came every day for fifteen years, to bury its head in his bosom and feed from his hand, and would go ...
— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders
... to bury their dead either at dawn or after dusk, and a special clause of the decree fixed the number of persons who might attend a funeral ...
— Massacres Of The South (1551-1815) - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... the cannon, the sighing of the shot, the groans of the wounded, the dark shades of approaching evening, all conspired to render the scene one of intense gloom. They longed for the approaching night to close around them in order that they might bury the dead, and flee to the wilderness ...
— Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) • Various


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