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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bury
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
buried/hidden/sunken treasure
bury sb in a grave (=put someone in a grave)
▪ She was buried in a grave next to her older sister.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deep
▪ These often have many icons buried deep inside.
▪ If volatiles are acquired during accretion then most of the volatiles are initially buried deep in the planet.
▪ It was soon ablaze, with the empty tin and rubber gloves buried deep in its midst.
▪ The kitchens were buried deep in the structure, far from any outside wall.
▪ Archaeologists found it in a boat-shaped tomb 29m long, made out of mud bricks and buried deep in the sand.
▪ After 50 years the waste will probably be buried deep underground.
▪ He wanted to drown himself in her, to bury deep into the cells of her skin and to forget himself there.
▪ Then it was done and the old man slumped forward, the knife buried deep in his chest.
here
▪ Robert Browne - founder of the Congregational Church - is buried here.
▪ They left Sakhalin with only one hope: to find their relatives and have their bones buried here.
▪ There is a plaque on the wall to recall that all the Brokof family of sculptors are buried here.
▪ This man was buried here in the fourth century.
▪ Sorrow was buried here, at the cost of a shilling and a pint of beer for the gravedigger.
there
▪ He died in Bristol 24 September 1939 and is buried there.
▪ According to a different version, Hsu Fu ended his days at Shingu and was buried there.
▪ He came from Sheerness ... buried there ... I'd got him, you know?
▪ He wants to be buried there.
▪ She scraped the earth back and saw something very dark blue - china or glass, buried there.
▪ All my family except Anne are buried there.
▪ Sarah Helen was buried there 76 years ago, but today the locals are afraid she is coming back to terrorise them.
▪ It was also claimed that his body, after his death, was brought from Jerusalem to Santiago and buried there.
■ NOUN
body
▪ George decided to bury the girl's body in the gravel.
▪ He buried the bodies in one grave with a single wooden cross as a marker; then notified the Commonwealth.
▪ The refugees, having buried his body, are forced to move on.
▪ She, her husband, and his brother were caught burying the bodies of Christians.
▪ The arteries, much more rigid than veins and buried deeper in the body, are unaffected.
▪ Steve has not been the same man since he whacked Saskia with an ashtray and buried her body in Epping Forest.
▪ He was caught in the end, trying to bury one of the bodies in the cemetery, in a fresh grave.
▪ During the night he buried the body in the small back garden behind the shop.
cemetery
▪ All the crew are buried at Stonefall cemetery, alongside many of their fellow countrymen.
▪ Founded in 1979, the young community has only three other people buried in its cemetery.
▪ But why weren't they buried in the cemetery after they were shot?
▪ Another daughter, Elizabeth, died of fever at age two in 1764 and was buried in the Negro cemetery alongside Nina.
▪ He will be buried at City Cemetery.
▪ Nikulin was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery, alongside leading officials and artists.
▪ Many of those who died at Moreton in Marsh are buried in the local cemetery.
▪ The parklike preserve also is the site of a tiny cemetery where members of the Bridges family and several Yahgans are buried.
church
▪ Trelawney himself is buried in Pelynt Church and the crozier carried in his funeral procession is also there on view.
▪ It was my job to bury her in the church.
▪ He was buried at the church of St Medard in Soissons.
▪ He died 14 June 1835 and was buried in Dedham parish church, where there is a mural tablet to his memory.
▪ May died 21 February 1684 and was buried in Mid Lavant church.
▪ He died in 1792 and was buried in the church which he had built at Cromford.
▪ To our surprise, she was not buried in the church with the Lintons, nor with the Earnshaws.
churchyard
▪ They buried him in the churchyard here.
▪ A few days later, George was buried in a Bergen churchyard.
▪ Did I deserve to die, and be buried in the churchyard like my uncle Reed?
▪ Owen was buried in the churchyard at Newtown, and there is a statue of him in the town's memorial park.
▪ He was buried in Greyfriars Churchyard.
▪ He died 12 March 1898 and was buried at Farnworth churchyard.
▪ She was buried in the local churchyard.
difference
▪ In recent weeks the two groups had buried their differences to stage joint armed protests across the country.
▪ We must bury our differences and work together.
face
▪ Then she struggled up, burying her face in his hand and her own.
▪ In her bedroom she buried her face in the pillow while numerous sobs escaped her, shaking her slim body uncontrollably.
▪ Suddenly he raced across the stage and buried his face behind the curtain.
▪ With a sob, Theda flung her arms about his neck and buried her face in his shoulder.
▪ I turned over and buried my face in the grass.
▪ Sam Somerville screamed once, buried her face in Quinn's back and began to cry.
▪ With a choked sob she brought the bear closer until she had buried her face in it.
family
▪ In this case, Madeline Usher has been buried in the family vault below the house, supposedly dead.
▪ Farm families usually bury their dead in family plots on their own land.
▪ He is the first person to be buried in this family plot, which he has bought.
▪ Blanche Arbuthnot was buried in the family plot at Naas.
▪ He was buried in the family vault in St Peter's-in-the-East churchyard, Oxford.
▪ Charles Longuet Higgins died in 1885 and was buried in the family vault at Turvey.
▪ But his father wants them buried in a family plot in Santa Inez.
father
▪ Next week she will bury her father in that uniform.
grave
▪ Village residents stated that at least 100 people had been murdered and buried in mass graves in the area.
▪ They then buried him in a grave that Phocas had prepared for himself during the night.
▪ Those corpses, the ones he had buried in their makeshift grave under the old elm tree who were they?
▪ Her body was found buried in a shallow grave in a grove two days after she was last seen with Thompson.
▪ They were buried in mass graves, the corpses piled one on top of the other under a few inches of soil.
▪ Hundreds of people were killed and buried in shallow graves beside the road.
▪ But sadly, she may never be able to prove what killed the people buried in the mass graves.
ground
▪ The giant who has been buried under the ground for hundreds of years.
▪ They cart her down to the city burying ground, roll red clay into her eyes.
▪ It can even be buried in the ground to prevent wetting the soil surface and encouraging weeds.
▪ A great shell fell, buried itself in the ground, and exploded near where I stood.
▪ It can be very difficult to be sure of why a hoard of objects was buried in the ground.
hatchet
▪ Christmas looks to be a time for burying the hatchet or exhuming it for re-examination.
▪ So much for burying the hatchet, he thinks.
▪ After the race, the two men met and sensibly buried the hatchet.
▪ Holly McPeak and Nancy Reno hope to bury the hatchet long enough to bring home the gold.
head
▪ You will notice phrases like crocodile tears, the elephant never forgets, and the ostrich burying its head in the sand.
▪ What is the good of having Rod Hull's Emu in the pulpit if he buries his head in the theological sands.
▪ She righted herself almost immediately, flew into Mrs Saulitis's out-stretched arms and buried her head in her bosom.
▪ In his room he fell on his bed, and buried his head in the pillow.
▪ Flinging himself on the carpet, he buried his head wretchedly in the sofa cushions.
▪ She buried her head in Florence's flank and groaned.
▪ Suddenly all she wanted to do was get home and bury her head under her pillow.
sand
▪ The sea wall ended, steps going down from the promenade and burying themselves in sand.
▪ Many wrasses bury themselves in the sand at night.
▪ It is possible that the reactors will never be demolished, but will be buried in mounds of sand or gravel.
▪ The seeds of Nuphar must be stored in cold surroundings, either covered with moss or buried in the sand.
▪ Archaeologists found it in a boat-shaped tomb 29m long, made out of mud bricks and buried deep in the sand.
▪ He was buried in the sand.
▪ We just buried ourselves in the sand.
▪ A solitary star plummeted downward to bury itself in the sand beside Alec's foot.
treasure
▪ In fact he was digging for buried treasure.
▪ Still, the movie fails to answer the big pirate question: Why are fictional pirates always burying their treasure?
▪ It could be a Roman or Saxon burial ground and they were buried with their treasures.
▪ But the notion of buried treasure in Arizona is not crazy.
▪ In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises, buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest.
■ VERB
die
▪ Did I deserve to die, and be buried in the churchyard like my uncle Reed?
▪ When she died, he buried her.
▪ Philip died and was buried at Lydiard Constantine, near Swindon.
▪ When bulls die, we bury them with one or both horns sticking up out of the ground.
▪ In Bhachau, which was also obliterated, 78 girls died when they were buried inside their school building.
▪ When I die, bury me by the river.
try
▪ He was caught in the end, trying to bury one of the bodies in the cemetery, in a fresh grave.
▪ I tried to bury myself in work.
▪ Such testimony, unheard of in El Salvador, is potentially explosive in a state that has tried to bury its past.
▪ West was having a fit trying to bury Prophet Samuel.
▪ For she, too, had her practical streak though now she tried to bury it.
▪ The move comes amid accusations that Oleksy is trying to bury the matter.
▪ Guilt made her try to bury it deep in her subconscious.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be dead and buried
▪ Gregory converted it too and Northampton knew they were dead and buried.
▪ The defensive concepts of prewar days were dead and buried.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He murdered his wife and buried her body in a field.
▪ People may bury painful childhood memories to protect themselves.
▪ Snakes usually bury their eggs.
▪ Some of the phone lines are buried beneath the streets.
▪ Tennessee buried Florida 45-3 in Saturday's game.
▪ The dog buried one of my slippers in the backyard.
▪ The hardest thing a mother can do is bury one of her children.
▪ We hope to bury any speculation that there was a conspiracy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although it had been buried without a coffin, it was found perfectly preserved.
▪ Four other abandoned children whose final days had not been as comfortable were buried that same day.
▪ Heberle confirms the mains will be buried between 36 inches and 44 inches deep.
▪ It is an earthwork which appears to descend into the ground and is partially buried in the soil.
▪ The arteries, much more rigid than veins and buried deeper in the body, are unaffected.
▪ The refugees, having buried his body, are forced to move on.
▪ Whitney, the high country is absolutely buried in the stuff.
▪ Your relatives have to bury you in an envelope.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.

    And all their confidence Under the weight of mountains buried deep.
    --Milton.

  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.
    --Matt. viii. 21.

    I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave.
    --Shak.

  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.
    --Shak.

    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.

    Syn: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal; overwhelm; repress.

Bury

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.

  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.
    --Miege.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bury

Old English byrgan "to raise a mound, hide, bury, inter," akin to beorgan "to shelter," from Proto-Germanic *burzjan- "protection, shelter" (cognates: Old Saxon bergan, Dutch bergen, Old Norse bjarga, Swedish berga, Old High German bergan "protect, shelter, conceal," German bergen, Gothic bairgan "to save, preserve"), from PIE root *bhergh- (1) "to hide, protect" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic brego "I preserve, guard"). Related: Buried; burying. Burying-ground "cemetery" attested from 1711.\n

\nThe Old English -y- was a short "oo" sound, like modern French -u-. Under normal circumstances it transformed into Modern English -i- (as in bridge, kiss, listen, sister), but in bury and a few other words (as in merry, knell) it retained a Kentish change to "e" that took place in the late Old English period. In the West Midlands, meanwhile, the Old English -y- sound persisted, slightly modified over time, giving the standard modern pronunciation of blush, much, church.

Wiktionary
bury

Etymology 1 n. (lb en obsolete) A burrow#Noun.(R:COED2: page=190/687) vb. 1 (context transitive English) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. 2 (context transitive English) To place in the ground. 3 (context transitive often figurative English) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance. Etymology 2

n. A borough; a manor

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WordNet
bury

  1. v. 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]

  7. [also: buried]

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Wikipedia
Bury (disambiguation)

Bury is a town in Lancashire, northern England.

Bury may also refer to:

  • The burial of human remains
  • -bury, a combining form of byrig ("near the fort") in English placenames
Bury (UK Parliament constituency)

Bury was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bury in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1832 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Bury & Radcliffe.

Bury (UK electoral ward)

Bury is an electoral ward of Chichester District, West Sussex, England and returns one member to sit on Chichester District Council.

Bury

Bury (, locally also ) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irwell, east of Bolton, west-southwest of Rochdale and north-northwest of Manchester. Bury is the largest settlement and administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury and in 2011 had a population of 55,856.

Historically part of Lancashire, Bury emerged in the Industrial Revolution as a mill town manufacturing textiles.

Bury is known for the open-air Bury Market and the local traditional dish, black pudding. The Manchester Metrolink tram system terminates in the town.

Bury resident Sir Robert Peel was a British Prime Minister who founded the Metropolitan Police and Conservative Party. The Peel Memorial is outside Bury parish church and the Peel Monument stands on Holcombe Hill overlooking Ramsbottom.

Bury (surname)

Bury is the surname of the following people

  • Bernard de Bury (1720–1785), French musician
  • Richard de Bury (1287–1345), English priest, teacher, bishop, writer and bibliophile
  • Robert of Bury (died 1181), English boy murder victim and Roman Catholic saint
  • Ambrose Bury (1869–1961), Canadian politician
  • Charles Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville (1764–1835), Irish politician
  • Charles Bury, 2nd Earl of Charleville (1801–1851), Irish politician, son of the above
  • Lady Charlotte Bury (1775–1861), English novelist
  • Chris Bury (born 1953), American journalist
  • Edward Bury (1794–1858), British locomotive manufacturer
  • Edward Bury (1616–1700), English ejected minister
  • Edward Bury (MP) for Maldon (UK Parliament constituency) in 1542
  • Frank Bury (1910–1944), British composer
  • Frederick Bury (1836–1885), English cricketer
  • Greg Bury, Canadian badminton player
  • Jan Bury (born 1963), Polish politician
  • John Bury (disambiguation)
  • Józef Bury (born 1961), Polish artist
  • Les Bury (1913–1986), Australian politician
  • Oliver Robert Hawke Bury (1861–1946), English railway engineer, chief mechanical engineer on the Great Western Railway of Brazil, General Manager of the Great Northern Railway in England and Director of the London and North Eastern Railway
  • Pol Bury (1922–2005), Belgian sculptor
  • Priscilla Susan Bury (1799–1872), British botanist and illustrator
  • Thomas Bury (judge) (1655–1722), English judge and Chief Baron of the Exchequer
  • Thomas Talbot Bury (1809–1877), British architect and lithographer
  • William Bury (disambiguation)
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Usage examples of "bury".

It was found buried in alluvium and was discovered during the mining operations at Green.

In the last section she had read Louisa was planning to go out to the Valley of the Tombs to bury the scent bottle which had turned out to be a sacred ampulla, at the feet of Isis.

Lateral resemblances with other languages - similar sounds applied to analogous significations - were noted and listed only in order to confirm the vertical relation of each to these deeply buried, silted over, almost mute values.

They--the vitarium her husband owns--know where the Anarch is buried, so if you want that information you can with a little effort get it from her.

This was lunar bedrock, anorthosite, buried beyond even the probings and pulverizing of the great impactors.

On the same day, the archpriest made up his mind to have the arm buried, and to send a formal denunciation .

Astragals, writhing and hanging heere and there, making the capitall thrise so big as the bottom thereof of the columne, wherevpon was placed the Epistile or streight beame, the greatest part decayed, and many columnes widowed and depriued of their Capitels, buryed in ruine both Astragals and shafts of the columnes and their bases or feete.

After disposing of the evidence, the shooter quickly rejoined his two comrades in the Citroen, and the car again sped off to the south, past the Montparnasse Cemetery where Pierre Sirois would be buried, and headed onto the autoroute for Troyes.

There was once a ballet dancer who, in Budapest, Vienna, and Copenhagen, was knitting rompers and jackets for a baby that had long lain buried at the edge of Oliva Forest, weighted down with stones.

That this leaf -presented to the parents of the bride to ensure permission for her hand in marriage, thrown into the air before journeys to ensure a safe return, buried in the ground by farmers to ensure plentiful harvests, burned at the cornerstones of new houses to ensure good luck within them, laid on piles of stones dedicated to Pachacamac to ensure safe passage through the mountains, and so on and so on - could have been banned beggars belief.

Buried deep in the anthracite core of my being is a personal trait so hideous, so confounding, a conceit so terrible in its repercussions, that it makes sodomy, pederasty, and barratry on the high seas seem as tame as a Frances Parkinson Keyes novel.

It was best that Josiah Bartram should remain quietly dead and buried.

His blackened form made a blot as it passed the white marble front of the mausoleum where Josiah Bartram lay buried.

Buried beneath the Bartram mansion, in a hidden spot which only Mahinda could have known, there could be no chance for life.

Corporate or Political or Military, they were the best of the benthos, sitting on top of the mud that buried everyone else.