Found 3 items, similar to bury.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: bury
melupakan, memakamkan, memendam, mengubur, mengurug, urug
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bury
bury
v 1: cover from sight;
“Afghani women buried under their burkas”
2: place in a grave or tomb;
“Stalin was buried behind the
Kremlin wall on Red Square”;
“The pharaos were entombed in
the pyramids”;
“My grandfather was laid to rest last
Sunday” [syn:
entomb,
inhume,
inter,
lay to rest]
3: place in the earth and cover with soil;
“They buried the
stolen goods”
4: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing;
“The
huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly
thereafter” [syn:
immerse,
swallow,
swallow up,
eat up
]
5: embed deeply;
“She sank her fingers into the soft sand”;
“He
buried his head in her lap” [syn:
sink]
6: dismiss from the mind; stop remembering;
“i tried to bury
these unpleasant memories” [syn:
forget] [ant:
remember]
[also:
buried]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bury
Bury
\Bur"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Buried; p. pr. & vb. n.
Burying.] [OE. burien, birien, berien, AS. byrgan; akin to
beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw.
berga, Dan. bierge, Goth. ba['i]rgan. [root]95. 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.
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And all their confidence
Under the weight of mountains buried deep. --Milton.
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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.
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Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
--Matt. viii.
21.
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I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. --Shak.
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3. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as,
to bury strife.
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Give me a bowl of wine
In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. --Shak.
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Burying beetle (Zo["o]l.), 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
larv[ae] 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.
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Syn: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal;
overwhelm; repress.
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Bury
\Bur"y\ (b[e^]r"r[y^]), n. [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.
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2. A manor house; a castle. [Prov. Eng.]
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To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the
lord's seat, is called bury, in some parts of
England. --Miege.
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