noun
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A burrow.
verb
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To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
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To place in the ground.
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bury a bone; bury the embers
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To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
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she buried her face in the pillow; they buried us in paperwork
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To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
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secrets kept buried; she buried her shame and put on a smiling face.
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To put an end to; to abandon.
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They buried their argument and shook hands.
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To score a goal.
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To kill or murder.
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To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.
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vocals buried in the mix
Examples of bury in a Sentence
I know he'll bury any tip that comes near him!
It would take all night to bury that much stuff.
We should bury him under the scarlet oak.
Dad wanted me to bury his ashes here too.
Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy! thought he.
We've got two bodies to bury.
He spent the night deep in thought, forcing himself to face the dark memories he'd tried so hard to bury.
There won't be a body to bury.
He then removed to Bury St Edmunds, where he acted as lecturer for ten years, retiring when his bishop (Wren) insisted on the observance of certain ceremonial articles.
The Vita Justiniani of Ludewig or Ludwig (Halle, 1731), a work of patient research, is frequently referred to by Gibbon in his important chapters relating to the reign of Justinian, in the Decline and Fall (see Bury's edition, 1900).
Mayer was something else—have a service, bury the guy in absentia and get him the hell off the books.
These emotions had taken thousands of years to bury and were bubbling up again, too strong for her to ignore forever.
The first fine (for 100 marks) was made by the abbot of Bury St Edmunds between 30 and 31 January.
Some graves can be seen in this chamber, as this was the usual place to bury former abbots of the monastery.
Jonathan Schofield is a striker from Bury St Edmunds who is equally adept on the left hand side.
The smoke and bold taste would bury the flavor of the wine.
Bury, of which the name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon burhg, birig or byrig (town, castle or fortified place), was the site of a Saxon station, and an old English castle stood in Castle Croft close to the town.
It was his function also to display and guard in battle the banner of the baron or banneret or the pennon of the knight he served, to raise him from the ground if he were unhorsed, to supply him with another or his own horse if his was disabled or killed, to receive and keep any prisoners he might take, to fight by his side if he was unequally matched, to rescue him if captured, to bear him to a place of safety if wounded, and to bury him honourably when dead.
C. Bury blew the charges and she sank.
In the XVIIIth-XXth dynasties a large number of fine tombs were made, and later ages continued to bury here till Roman times.
In Winchester, London, St Albans, Canterbury, Bury, Beverley, Scarborough and many other places the rioting was as violent as in the countryside.
There was more arson and blackmailing than murder, though some prominent persons perished, such as the judge, Sir John Caven.dish, and the prior of Bury.
Almost his first duty was to bury the insane Charles VI., who only survived his son-in-law for a few months, and to proclaim his little nephew king of France under the name of Henry II.
This led to his death; he was arrested by the order of the queen and the ministers at the parliament of Bury.
On the fatal day of TewkesEdward, bury (May 3, 147 I) her army was beaten, her son was slain in the flight, and the greater part of her chief captains were taken prisoner.
Historians are to serve no, cause but that of truth; in so far even as they desire a line of investigation to lead to a particular result, they are not, maintains Professor Bury, real historians.
Among these Arthur Young's Travels in France during the years 1787, 1788 and 1789 (2 vols., Bury St Edmunds, 1792-1794) are peculiarly instructive.
Bury in his monograph on St Patrick is the only trained historian who has ever adequately dealt with any of the problems connected with ancient Ireland.
They both abstain from meat and liquor, marry at the age of puberty, ordinarily celebrate their ceremonies through the agency of the elders of their own caste and bury their dead.
Feuillet, however, having still further declined, he summoned his son to leave Paris and bury himself as his constant attendant in the melancholy château at Saint-LO.
Darian was chopped into so many pieces that there'd been no body to bury.
Born at Lydgate, Suffolk, John Lydgate entered the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds at fifteen.
One or two species do not bury their eggs, but carry them about attached to their body appendages.
An alternative to burial is to scatter or bury the ashes from a cremation in the garden.
The membership includes Old Bury Hill Lake, Temple Lake our new specimen carp lake.
The mother was instructed to bury the body the next day and not to open the casket.
On the slopes of Isandhlwana itself, men under Colonel Drury-Lowe are searching the battlefield in order to bury the English dead.
But as he sets out to bury his dear departed wife in fitting style, nothing quite goes to plan.
With a grim yet somewhat optimistic determination, DD piloted the car through the narrow lanes west of Bury.
In 1924, Mr Ivan Palmer, a farm foreman from near Bury St Edmunds, became licensee.
But as the election results dominate the headlines, itâs a good day to bury bad news.
In either case it appears to have seemed sensible to bury the loot.
But by 1730, he was back in Bury where he patented a machine for twisting and cording mohair and worsted.
Bury Mount, the castle motte in Moat Lane, was probably built by the Normans in the 11th century.
We need to engage with our culture and the issues it raises and faces, not bury our heads like the proverbial ostrich.
He's consultant chest physician at Bury district hospital.
Up to 1834 In 1728, a proposal to erect a poorhouse in Bury was rejected by the Vestry meeting.
Defra have installed 13m ² of roof mounted solar panels providing hot water throughout the year for 120 staff at Bury St Edmunds.
Bury St Edmunds is a Suffolk market town steeped in history.
Jake Waddilove is a pig veterinarian, and a partner in the Eastgate Veterinary Group, a practice in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.