Definition of "bury"

bury¹

/ˈbɛɹ.i/

verb
third-person singular simple present buries, present participle burying, simple past and past participle buried
1. (transitive) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
2. (transitive) To place in the ground.
3. (transitive, often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
  Quotations
  Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. […] Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
  2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28
  The Thai government has been trying to bury the memory of the revolution that gave birth to democracy in Thailand.
  2017 June 29, Eugene Mark, “Time to Truly Understand Thailand’s 1932 Revolution”, in The Diplomat‎, Diplomat Media Inc., retrieved 2020-06-23
4. (transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
  Quotations
  Give me a bowl of wine. / In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.
  1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii]
6. (transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
  Quotations
  You could feel the relief after Bendtner collected Wilshere's raking pass before cutting inside Carlos Edwards and burying his shot beyond Fulop.
  2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1)”, in BBC
7. (transitive, figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
8. To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.
9. (transitive, figurative, humorous) To outlive.
10. (professional wrestling slang) Ruining the image or character of another wrestler, usually by embarassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
noun
plural buries
1. (obsolete) A burrow.
  Quotations
  Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.
  1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […]
  The conies had hundreds of buries under these trees, so close together that the problem was not to find a rabbit, but to find a rabbit far enough away from its hole.
  1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, book I (The Sword in the Stone)

bury²

/ˈbɛɹ.i/

noun
plural buries
1. A borough; a manor
  Quotations
  Indisputable, though very dim to modern vision, rests on its hill-slope that same Bury, Stow, or Town of St. Edmund; already a considerable place, not without traffic
  1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 5, Twelfth Century”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, book II (The Ancient Monk)

Definition of "bury"

bury1

verb

Quotations

Quotations

Quotations

noun

Quotations

bury2

noun

Quotations

bury¹

bury²