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bury English

Meaning bury meaning

What does bury mean?
Definitions in simple English

bury Verb

— If you bury something, you put it into the ground and cover it. John was buried near Washington, D.C. The dog buried the bone in the ground. — If you bury a disagreement, you end it. Mary and Bill buried their disagreement over the sandwich.

bury

— verb cover from sight Afghani women buried under their burkas — verb (= entomb, lay to rest) place in a grave or tomb Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday — verb place in the earth and cover with soil They buried the stolen goods — verb (= sink) embed deeply She sank her fingers into the soft sand He buried his head in her lap — verb (= swallow) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter — verb dismiss from the mind; stop remembering I tried to bury these unpleasant memories

Synonyms bury synonyms

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inter entomb plant hide conceal cover lay to rest inhume embed cover up cover with earth secrete forget swallow sink dissemble cache swallow up root place in immerse imbed enclose eat up cover with soil burial wedge veil unlearn turf troop trip tribe trap train tittering tiding team swarm surround stud string stop up stash span sow sounder soft clay sloth sleuth

Topics bury topics

What do people use bury to talk about?
Person Life Die

Bury
Physical actions Move something

Cover
Physical actions

Hide
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Dig

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    bury
States Quality Good Decay

Garbage
Universe, creation World Land

Volcano
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Ignore
Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Steal

Conjugation bury conjugation

How do you conjugate bury?

bury · verb

Examples bury examples

How do I use bury in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You can't bury the truth.
At long last, the two chiefs of the Indian tribes have decided to bury the hatchet and smoke the peace pipe.
Dogs often bury bones.
We will bury you.
Muslims bury their dead in graves.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Don't bury your head in the sand.
Let's bury the hatchet and be friends again!
Doctors can bury their mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant ivy.
We can't bury our heads in the sand.
Squirrels only find a quarter of the nuts that they bury.
Gray squirrels bury nuts, but red squirrels don't.
Let's bury the hatchet.
Their job is to bury dead animals.
Where did you bury them?
It's time to bury the hatchet.
Why don't we bury the treasure here?

Movie subtitles

I want to bury my family.
I shall bury the golden plates, father, and perhaps one day someone very special will find them.
Yes, as of today, he would accept condolers' visits and bury her on the third day.
Why doesn't he bury her right away, making the 3 days of funeral process like this?
Bury the bone tomb?
So who did you bury yesterday?
Bury him?
If I see her doing anything that might put us at risk, I'll bury her with my own hands.
I fear that I am about to die. and if I do, I ask you to bury me in sacred ground.
Bury yourselves deep into her.
They taught me how to bury in in the snow so you won't freeze to death in the storms.
Where did you bury little Martha?
Bury it where you found it.
WHY, MY ANCESTORS WOULD RISE FROM THEIR GRAVES AND I'D ONLY HAVE TO BURY THEM AGAIN.
You can call a settlers' meeting to bury 'em.
Just like Vasili died for the new life, I'm asking you, to bury him according to the new ways.
Good, Uncle Opanas, we'll bury our Vasili ourselves.
I'll take it out and bury it.
I'd have to bury them again.
You've got to bury your nose in it.
Bury the hatchet.
Keep your hands off your guns, or there'll be more dead men than this town can afford to bury.
We're going to bury her nose this trip.
As soon as we bury the pilot, we'll move in. We can have a fire.
We were going to bury him when you came along.
All right, bury the stuff.
Hey, bury that beef, will you?
I have decided to forgive everything, so let me bury it all deep in my heart, and let us compromise a little.
Now, stay with her - and help her bury the dog.
At least we could bury him. - Why?
A nicelooking girl like you wouldn't wanna bury yourself in a wheat farm.
I saw them bury her.
Couldn't we bury the hatchet?
BURY MISS LIVVIE IN A LONELY SPOT AND DON'T RETURN BEFORE SUNDOWN.
We gotta get him out of here and bury him.

News and current affairs

After all, the very success of that attack meant that such limited intervention could never be repeated, because would-be proliferators learned to bury, hide, or duplicate their nascent weapons programs.
Only an enhanced German relevance in European and world politics will convince America that it is time to bury the hatchet.
Abe's greatest wish is to complete the project that eluded his grandfather: abandon constitutional pacifism and bury the war crimes of Kishi's generation, while remaining allied with the US against China.
This problem is compounded by the global reserve system, which sees most countries demanding US dollars, effectively to bury them in the ground.
A large majority of the UN adopted the proposal on 15 November, despite attempts by some member states to obstruct, amend, or bury it.
But it is much too early to bury Sarkozy.
Of course, on a continent that has largely failed to bury its past and close the door to nationalist ghosts, the EU is also often regarded by Asians as a model of reconciliation, peace, and prosperity.
So don't bury France just yet.
But this does not mean we want to bury history and our historic ties.
In this context, Europe may be a tired, aging, and depressed continent, but, as its luxury and aeronautics industries attest, it would be premature to bury it.
If a clean start is impossible, the best that can be done is to try to bury the old information with such an inflationary flood of new data that it simply dwindles into insignificance.
But the campaign has now become a question of numbers: will the Third Man bury the Fifth Republic?
So China's first reaction to SARS was to bury the news of a public health epidemic in the making.
As a consequence, Israel's willy-nilly expansion of West Bank settlements might finally bury comprehensive peace efforts for good.
The second is designed to bury whatever hopes still exist for signing a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol.
The story in Linyi is the kind of news that propaganda officials usually bury in the Communist Party's secret files.
In fact, this cycle is now thought to bury heat deep in the oceans periodically.
But rapid punishment - most likely execution - threatens to bury the full record of decades of tyranny under the apparently overriding purpose of fighting the insurgency by other means.
Hamas radicalism is not devoid of a political purpose - to bury whatever remains of the two-state solution.

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