to bury
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1.7
- verb
- /ˈbɛri/
:
enterrar
- After the ceremony, we will bury her ashes in the garden.
- bury the dead
- bury alive
- bury the body
Never when, when, when they bury me is when I'll stop.
- Never when, when, when they bury me is when I'll stop.
- Motherfucker had dead bodies in his backyard, buried bones like this.
- And she stabs him, kills him and buries him in the woods.
- We buried Mike at Arlington, we buried Bob in Texas.
- My mom didn't even get to bury her mother.
- We have a lot of people that like to be buried in, you know, like UK.
- They'd come across a previous client who they buried and that's why they stink.
- And then you eat that because you they probably bury bodies outside too.
- You want to make sure that you that you don't bury them deeper.
- There is this hidden treasure buried somewhere.
Examples
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And then Jay helped him bury her body.
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When I die, bury me with my golden arm.
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Not until we bury the body.
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I just had to bury her on Memorial Day weekend.
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I shall be buried here.
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The remains of six troops were found, one of whom was buried with a copper Russian Orthodox cross.
Academic text (2008) -
We buried Mike at Arlington, we buried Bob in Texas.
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I understand why people used to go back to be buried in Calabria or County Cork.
Academic text (2012) -
Two weeks after his youngest child was buried in Highgate Cemetery, Dickens returned to London.
Fiction book (1990) -
All Yungur men and women are buried immediately after death, wrapped in cloth or robes.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
21
4.0
To bury someone after a funeral
11
8.1
To put a dead body in a tomb or enclose something as if buried
4
8.7
To put a dead body in a grave
1
6.6
To put a box with items in the ground to be opened later
1
9.9
To put a dead body in an underground stone room
To put a dead body in a grave or tomb
To put a dead person into a grave
To put a dead body in a tomb during a ceremony
To cover something with a pile of earth to bury and protect it
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Etymology
Bury comes from the old English verb byrgan, which meant 'to hide' or 'to cover'. Think of putting something under the ground so it is out of sight — that's why bury means to put something in the earth for a funeral or to hide it.