to bury
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1.6
- verb
- /ˈbɛri/
- They would bail it up and then they would bury it in trenches in the soil.
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Watch on YouTubeWe found the couple who had been buried underneath decades of clutter.
- We found the couple who had been buried underneath decades of clutter.
- No, like a snack ruffles buried in their own bag.
- And now it's all buried in the coffers of a settlement.
- The joke gets buried because there are so many words.
- And two, these core sensors that we're reading are buried inside the multi layered SoC.
- The guy who buried it, He blamed the master.
- He says my team had food buried on their lane.
Examples
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I scuttled down to the bottom of my bed and buried myself beneath the heavy blankets.
Fiction book (1990) -
And so it got buried deep, deep on Google.
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So somebody really wanted to bury the history of this place.
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Whatever they learned will be buried with them.
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Something best buried and forgotten.
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We found the couple who had been buried underneath decades of clutter.
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In a later episode about dinosaurs, Sesame Street characters find several buried objects as they pretend to be paleontologists.
Academic text (2015) -
Then she discovers a tape recorder secretly buried in the rib cavity of the body.
Academic text (2008) -
Ice is the conqueror here, carving and burying entire mountain ranges like vanquished armies.
Academic text (1993) -
The treasure was buried deep beneath the old oak tree, waiting to be found.
Synonyms
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1.0
To keep something so others cannot see or understand it
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1.0
To put something over another thing to protect or hide it
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3.7
To hide something so people cannot see or find out about it
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2.0
To put something into a small place so it is neat or hidden
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3.7
To hide something so others cannot see or find it
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3.7
To cover part of something to hide or protect it
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5.1
To cover something so it is hard to see or understand
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6.0
To cover something completely, often with a cloth
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5.0
To cover something so others cannot easily see or understand it
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5.4
Hide something so you cannot see it or remember it
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8.1
To put a dead body in a tomb or enclose something as if buried
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4.2
To cover completely with something so it is hard to see or reach
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8.1
Hide something carefully where others cannot find it
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4.6
To cover completely so it cannot be seen, often by water or strong feeling
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8.2
To cover something completely so you cannot see or understand it
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4.9
Surround something completely so it becomes hard to see
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Etymology
Bury comes from the old English byrgan, meaning 'to hide' or 'to cover'. So when you tuck yourself under a pile of blankets or hide an object in soil, you are doing what the word originally meant: covering it so it cannot be seen.