ALL meanings of bury
bur·y
B b - verb bury To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth. 3
- verb bury To bury a dead person means to put their body into a grave and cover it with earth. 3
- verb bury If someone says they have buried one of their relatives, they mean that one of their relatives has died. 3
- verb bury If you bury something under a large quantity of things, you put it there, often in order to hide it. 3
- verb bury If something buries a place or person, it falls on top of them so that it completely covers them and often harms them in some way. 3
- verb bury If you bury your head or face in something, you press your head or face against it, often because you are unhappy. 3
- verb bury If something buries itself somewhere, or if you bury it there, it is pushed very deeply in there. 3
- verb bury If you bury a feeling, you try not to show it. If you bury a memory, you try to forget it. 3
- verb bury If you bury yourself in a place or in an activity such as your work, you spend all your time in that place or doing that activity, usually because you want to forget about things. 3
- verb bury If you bury your head in something such as a book or newspaper, or bury yourself in it, you look at it closely and concentrate very hard on it. 3
- verb bury to place (a corpse) in a grave, usually with funeral rites; inter 3
- verb bury to place in the earth and cover with soil 3
- verb bury to lose through death 3
- verb bury to cover from sight; hide 3
- verb bury to embed; sink 3
- verb bury to occupy (oneself) with deep concentration; engross 3
- verb bury to dismiss from the mind; abandon 3
- noun bury a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester: an early textile centre. Pop: 60 178 (2001) 3
- noun bury a unitary authority in NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 181 900 (2003 est). Area: 99 sq km (38 sq miles) 3
- noun bury city in Greater Manchester, NW England: county district pop. 177,000 3
- verb transitive bury to put (a dead body) into the earth, a tomb, or the sea, usually in a ceremonial manner; inter 3
- verb transitive bury to hide (something) in the ground 3
- verb transitive bury to cover up so as to conceal 3
- verb transitive bury to put away, as from one's life, mind, etc. 3
- verb transitive bury to put (oneself) deeply into; plunge; immerse 3
- transitive verb bury secret, bad news: hide 1
- verbal expression bury engross oneself in sth 1
- transitive verb bury embed 1
- verb with object bury to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island. 1
- verb with object bury to put (a corpse) in the ground or a vault, or into the sea, often with ceremony: They buried the sailor with full military honors. 1
- verb with object bury to plunge in deeply; cause to sink in: to bury an arrow in a target. 1
- verb with object bury to cover in order to conceal from sight: She buried the card in the deck. 1
- verb with object bury to immerse (oneself): He buried himself in his work. 1
- verb with object bury to put out of one's mind: to bury an insult. 1
- verb with object bury to consign to obscurity; cause to appear insignificant by assigning to an unimportant location, position, etc.: Her name was buried in small print at the end of the book. 1
- noun plural bury Nautical. housing1 (def 8a, b). 1
- idioms bury bury one's head in the sand, to avoid reality; ignore the facts of a situation: You cannot continue to bury your head in the sand—you must learn to face facts. 1
- idioms bury bury the hatchet, to become reconciled or reunited. 1
- transitive verb bury put sth under the earth 1
- transitive verb bury person, animal: inter 1
- transitive verb bury snow, debris: cover sb, sth 1
- transitive verb bury feelings: suppress 1
- noun bury (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A burrow. 0
- noun bury A borough; a manor. 0
- verb bury (Transitive Verb) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. 0
- verb bury (Transitive Verb) To place in the ground. 0
- verb bury (Transitive Verb) (often figuratively) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance. 0
- verb bury (Transitive Verb) (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind. 0
- verb bury (Transitive Verb) (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon. 0
- verb bury (Transitive Verb) (figuratively) To score a goal. 0