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bury
/ˈbɛɹi/
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What does bury mean?
verb
- (figuratively, slang) To kill or murder.
- (figuratively, humorous) To outlive.
- To place in the ground.
More meanings (18)
verb
- (figuratively) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- (figuratively) To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
- (figuratively) To overwhelm.
- (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- To score (a goal).
- (slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
noun
- A borough; a manor
- (obsolete) A burrow.
proper noun
- A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL2883).
- A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester.
- A hamlet in Brompton Regis parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref SS9427).
- A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0113).
- Ellipsis of Bury St Edmunds.
- A village in Péruwelz municipality, Hainaut province, Belgium.
- A commune in Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France.
- A municipality in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Estrie region, Quebec, Canada.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
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IPA pronunciation
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How quickly they cover all that it is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create frightful gulfs!
Our first work was to bury more effectually the dead we found there, who had been half interr'd by the country people.
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The Captain and his men had come to bury their companion in this general resting-place, at the bottom of this inaccessible ocean!
“Private lives are more important than public reputations. I am going to save the living, and let the dead bury their dead.”
They bury the fruit of their labours, leaving marks by which, upon their return, they may be able to recognise the spot.